Hemingway Soldier's Home Analysis

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home” Hemingway describe how a war hero returns home with his emotions fighting with the surrounding environment. A year after graduating high school, Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver in 1918 for WW1. Krebs, the soldier, also volunteered to be in WW1 too. Hemingway developes this story by how he experiences WW1, by using biographical strategy, to enhance the setting: places, times, and moods to explain Hemingway uses setting with time, place, and mood to give details about what is was like to be in certain areas in WW1 and how it feels like to return home from war. From a biographical strategy view you can tell Hemingway relates his personal experience from the war into the story “Soldier’s …show more content…
He started to talk about his war stories and how everyone reacted to the war but he came home late but no one wanted to hear about it making him feel like he doesn’t belong or fit in. At the end is mother tries to talk to him about getting a job and a family but Krebs didn’t want to and when she told him she loves him he say he doesn’t. After he left the house because of that experience he went to see his sister play indoor baseball. The setting mostly describes where he was at in the beginning of the story with him returning home from the war. Hemingway describes the years and places where Krebs went at through pictures on the wall, “There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another corporal.” also “By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greetings of heroes was over.” (165). From this, the reader can see how closely Hemingway is related to Krebs by how they both endure violence and how they both try to readjust to life back home after WW1. Another example of setting goes towards how Kreb’s mood is around his mother. “Is that all?” Krebs said. “Yes. Don’t you love your mother, dear boy?” “No,” Krebs