Hemingway Soldiers Home Analysis

Sometimes even after the war is over, the soldier never truly returns “home”. This is the case, In the short story “Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway where the main character returns to Oklahoma, only to reminisce about his time overseas. Once returning, he is ignored by others and does not feel they belong to “his world”. Additionally Krebbs seems to adore girls from afar instead of attempting to approach him. It seems as if whatever he had gone through has truly changed him. Based on what is told. On another note, even though at first the title makes us assume that the story is about a soldier going home, but we soon realize it is meant to make us think about where a soldiers true “home” is. I believe that a true soldiers home is being while being deployed because this is where is brothers are and others who belong to “his world”. Usually home is a place of comfort where one feels they truly belong, but that doesn't seem to be the case in “Soldiers Home”. For example, he mentions how “ He did not want to leave Germany. He did not want to come home, Still he had to come home.'(Heemingway 2). The mere fact that he wanted to stay in another country rather than his own implies that …show more content…
When he returns to his so called home, no one seems to be interested in what he has to say and “ he had to lie to be listened to at all”(Hemingway 1). Consequently, developing “a distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war due to the lies he told”(Hemingway 1). His trouble with people can also be seen when he claims “ He looked the girls that were walking along the other side of the street” and that “he would like to have one of them. But it was not worth it(Heemingway 2). Apparently in of, France and Germany it was much less complicated, because “you couldn't talk much, you didn't need to talk. It was