Soldier's Home Essay

The tragedy of losing brothers in arms left and right on the front lines of the goriest war in times past is petrifying and traumatizing. In “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway introduces a lonely soldier’s voyage back to life after returning from World War 1. The lives of the soldiers that fought in the war are overlooked and overseen for what events they have encountered and the pain they suffered internally. Ernest Hemingway is a hero whether he encountered the traumatic stresses of war or not, he opened the eyes of the generation of his story of Krebs and his adjustment back into civilization from a horrific confrontation. World War 1 was graphic and war itself is very ugly and evil that no one should face the hostilities of it in their …show more content…
In a psychological standpoint, Krebs is hurting inside and unable to adapt to the life he once had in Oklahoma. Everything around him is now changed, and he cannot part into it and refuses to change his old ways. His family attempts to connect to Krebs and understand his life but are not entertaining to what he has to say to them. His family knows him as Harold but Hemingway throughout the story pronounces him as Krebs, they are two distinctly different characters but are the exact same person (Roberts 2). Harold was the person that Krebs left behind and Krebs is a new person that he developed into after the war. The war can leave a person so changed and confused that life will not be the same regardless of what help they can possibly find. Hemingway emphasized on a soldier’s view of the new world and the frustrations they endured once they finally came …show more content…
Krebs life story is what some would say is actually Hemingway’s life spoken through Krebs character expression on what he felt. When Krebs began to feel nauseous when he was telling the lies about his fighting in the war, this was because he was on a guilt trip and needed to tell the veracity of what actually happened (Hemingway 167). Similarly, this would have been the same remorse Hemingway felt as his career would begin to hit the spotlight in 1924 and he would have to come through with the truth of his life (Kobler 18). He would then relieve his guilt by writing a “Soldier’s Home” to get the truth out to the world through a hidden confession. Even if this being seen as a fraud, in all actuality he is a hero either way by opening up the untold truth of a soldier trying to find his way back home. He underlined on the stresses and the complications the soldiers faced coming back into the real