Soldier’s Home is short story written in prose by Ernest Hemingway. The story takes place in Kansas. .Krebs is the main character of the story. Helen and kreb’s mother are the secondary ones. The story is narrated in third person. The narrator does not take part in the story, meaning that is not a character..
Krebs goes to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. He was supposed to return two years ago, but he enlisted in the Marine instead. He returns two years after the men from the town have been all welcomed. So he misses the hysteria of the moment. At first, Krebs does not want to speak about the war, however, later he feels the necessity to speak about it, but no one is willing to listen to it since they have already heard a lot …show more content…
The story depict two pictures of the man. In the first one, Krebs is among his fraternity brothers at college. He enjoys being with and going out with his friends. He seems to enjoy the things the town has to offers him. In the other picture he is in another corporal meaning that Krebs is not the same boy he was before. In some way the war has changed him. He is not able to fit in because everything is so different. He is not able to adapt to what it was before because everything differs to what it is in Europe. He is frequently thinking about Germany and his experiences but he couldn’t talk about them because of his late arrival and no one wanted to listen to more dismal stories about the war. Krebs is not able to put up with the boys of his age who are settling down, taking wives and getting jobs. Instead Krebs is going late to bed, waking up late, reading books and playing pool. His mother tries to wake him up of the boredom and the routine of his life. She lets him use the car and talks to him about what the others boys have achieved. But Krebs can’t because the war has changed his mentality and with the things he saw. Since Krebs is unable to re-adapt to his pre-war life for the reasons mentioned above I believe that the main theme in the store is adaptation. For me What the author describes with this story is the postwar life. How lost and disoriented people
Krebs goes to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. He was supposed to return two years ago, but he enlisted in the Marine instead. He returns two years after the men from the town have been all welcomed. So he misses the hysteria of the moment. At first, Krebs does not want to speak about the war, however, later he feels the necessity to speak about it, but no one is willing to listen to it since they have already heard a lot …show more content…
The story depict two pictures of the man. In the first one, Krebs is among his fraternity brothers at college. He enjoys being with and going out with his friends. He seems to enjoy the things the town has to offers him. In the other picture he is in another corporal meaning that Krebs is not the same boy he was before. In some way the war has changed him. He is not able to fit in because everything is so different. He is not able to adapt to what it was before because everything differs to what it is in Europe. He is frequently thinking about Germany and his experiences but he couldn’t talk about them because of his late arrival and no one wanted to listen to more dismal stories about the war. Krebs is not able to put up with the boys of his age who are settling down, taking wives and getting jobs. Instead Krebs is going late to bed, waking up late, reading books and playing pool. His mother tries to wake him up of the boredom and the routine of his life. She lets him use the car and talks to him about what the others boys have achieved. But Krebs can’t because the war has changed his mentality and with the things he saw. Since Krebs is unable to re-adapt to his pre-war life for the reasons mentioned above I believe that the main theme in the store is adaptation. For me What the author describes with this story is the postwar life. How lost and disoriented people