Ernest Hemingway’s deeper meaning to “Soldiers Home
Ernest Hemingway has a deeper meaning to his story “Soldiers Home. Using Biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze his short story, “Soldiers Home” it can be argued that Hemingway wanted to highlight the struggles returning soldiers faced when coming home from military service and to help others realize that the isolation is an ongoing issue that has yet to be solved. A young man named Krebs is the main character in “Soldiers Home” who has just returned home from the bloodiest wars in history. Hemingway uses the psychological reading strategy to help readers understand how Krebs is feeling throughout the story and his transition and why he chooses and thinks the …show more content…
Hemingway uses his writing style to help us see how Krebs is thinking. His thoughts seem to be jumbled and unsure, he is unable to make up his mind about things such as the girls in his home town. The narrator, “He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live alone without consequences. Besides he did not really need a girl. The Army had taught him that.” (Hemingway para 12) He has learned a completely different life in the last two years he has been gone in the Army. Krebs in unable to sort through which things to keep and which ones not to keep. Along with this, Krebs no longer feels as though Oklahoma is his home. When he left for the war he outgrew the town that he had grown up in. According to Ruben De Baerdemaeker, “This sense of “outgrowing” a uniform pattern is the main theme of “Soldiers Home.” The two pictures at the beginning of this story emblemize different styles of normativity—networks or patterns of norms and regulations that shape the people they encompass.” (Baerdemaeker para 6) Krebs grew up in a town that had its regular day to day normalcy that he is unable to revert back to. People in his town didn’t care what he had done or learned and that even included his own family. Krebs mother, …show more content…
"Performative Patterns in Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home.'." Short Story Criticism, edited by Jelena O. Krstovic, vol. 117, Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018. Originally published in Hemingway Review, vol. 27, no. 1, Fall 2007, pp. 55-73
Cohen, Milton A. "Vagueness and ambiguity in Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home': two puzzling passages." The Hemingway Review, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, p. 158+. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018.
Hemingway, Ernest. “Soldiers Home”. The Compact Bedford Instruction to Literarture: Reading, Thinking, Writing. Ed. Ellen Thibault. Boston New York. Bedford St. Martins, 2014. 166-171. Print.
Kobler, J.F. "'Soldier's Home' revisited: a Hemingway mea culpa." Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 30, no. 3, 1993, p. 377+. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018.
Trout, Steven. "'Where Do We Go From Here?': Ernest Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' and American Veterans of World War I." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg, vol. 203, Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018. Originally published in The Hemingway Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Fall 2000, pp.
Ernest Hemingway has a deeper meaning to his story “Soldiers Home. Using Biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze his short story, “Soldiers Home” it can be argued that Hemingway wanted to highlight the struggles returning soldiers faced when coming home from military service and to help others realize that the isolation is an ongoing issue that has yet to be solved. A young man named Krebs is the main character in “Soldiers Home” who has just returned home from the bloodiest wars in history. Hemingway uses the psychological reading strategy to help readers understand how Krebs is feeling throughout the story and his transition and why he chooses and thinks the …show more content…
Hemingway uses his writing style to help us see how Krebs is thinking. His thoughts seem to be jumbled and unsure, he is unable to make up his mind about things such as the girls in his home town. The narrator, “He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live alone without consequences. Besides he did not really need a girl. The Army had taught him that.” (Hemingway para 12) He has learned a completely different life in the last two years he has been gone in the Army. Krebs in unable to sort through which things to keep and which ones not to keep. Along with this, Krebs no longer feels as though Oklahoma is his home. When he left for the war he outgrew the town that he had grown up in. According to Ruben De Baerdemaeker, “This sense of “outgrowing” a uniform pattern is the main theme of “Soldiers Home.” The two pictures at the beginning of this story emblemize different styles of normativity—networks or patterns of norms and regulations that shape the people they encompass.” (Baerdemaeker para 6) Krebs grew up in a town that had its regular day to day normalcy that he is unable to revert back to. People in his town didn’t care what he had done or learned and that even included his own family. Krebs mother, …show more content…
"Performative Patterns in Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home.'." Short Story Criticism, edited by Jelena O. Krstovic, vol. 117, Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018. Originally published in Hemingway Review, vol. 27, no. 1, Fall 2007, pp. 55-73
Cohen, Milton A. "Vagueness and ambiguity in Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home': two puzzling passages." The Hemingway Review, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010, p. 158+. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018.
Hemingway, Ernest. “Soldiers Home”. The Compact Bedford Instruction to Literarture: Reading, Thinking, Writing. Ed. Ellen Thibault. Boston New York. Bedford St. Martins, 2014. 166-171. Print.
Kobler, J.F. "'Soldier's Home' revisited: a Hemingway mea culpa." Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 30, no. 3, 1993, p. 377+. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018.
Trout, Steven. "'Where Do We Go From Here?': Ernest Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' and American Veterans of World War I." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg, vol. 203, Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 28 Apr. 2018. Originally published in The Hemingway Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Fall 2000, pp.