Ernest Hemingway Soldier's Home Essay

“Soldier's Home” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that shows the post-war effects on a person and how they try to adjust back into their lives as it was before they left. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. After finishing high school Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I. While serving he was wounded on an Italian war front. After the war he took his first hand experiences and wrote them into several of his books. At the age of 62 Hemingway became terminally ill with cancer and choose to commit suicide. Harold Krebs had been enlisted as a Marine and was sent overseas to help fight, when he came home his presence was shrugged off. Krebs arrived later than all of the other soldiers and now …show more content…
“He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live alone without consequences” (166). As I read though this story I felt as if his mom was pushy and and wanted him to be more than he already is. I get what Krebs is probably feeling. He just wants to be alone and not have to deal with anyone so he doesn’t have any trouble to be involved with. Instead his mom continues to push for him to get a job and a girlfriend and he just blows it off. If I were Krebs I would probably address the situation and tell my parents that I would no longer like to be pushed around and that I am trying to deal with things on my own. Kerbs’ living situations, surroundings, and environments have all changed from living overseas to returning back to his hometown. Although there is no longer a physcial war going on and that he is a fighting in, he is involved in his own war. He’s trying to find himself and what he wants amidst what his parents think he needs. I think if we could all take away one thing, it would be that war has lasting effects on someone and pushing that person to do things probably isn’t the most effective way to reach