The transformation from adolescent years into adulthood can trigger an individual to address that it is time to discover one’s position in the world. A majority of the people attains this transition effortlessly whereas others struggle to receive acceptance amongst their surroundings. In the short story “Soldiers Home” Harold Krebs image is in the photographs that are essential in charactering he transforms from a young fraternity boy then the comparison of him as a mature soldier in World War I. Not to mention, a third portrait in images printed on the pages of the short story, demonstrating the soldier’s character is incapable of “accept the old norms” once departing from the war (DeFalco 90). These norms and his war experience cause Harold
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In fact the transformation from a member of social organization who attends a Methodist college exhibits how he fits in easily; then on the other hand, the fact that he is in a photo with German women that are far from attractive. First, Harold persona indicates a guy on top of the world, as well as, someone who can possibly acquire any schoolgirl he wants when he is a man of the fraternity. While the second shot shows a profile of a fellow merging beneath the influences of war who does not care about what once was meaningful. Not to mention of his homecoming he does not desire to pursue a relationship with any girls, for the fact that he does not wish for consequences and has a taste for French or German women because they have traits of being straightforward and without consequences. As Johnston observes, “Krebs admires the girls, but their appeal vanishes when he meets them downtown. After all, he is seeking a life that is free from complications combined with the consequences. The intricate harness of courtship and marriage is not for him (78). Moreover, Harold Krebs return from combat depicts him as having an inability to love and determined to avoid complications which leads into a state of solitary existence for the …show more content…
Furthermore, in his role with family, he lied to show an attachment, such as at the breakfast when his mom asks, “Don’t you love your mother, dear boy” (125)? “No…I don’t love anybody” (125). Which causes his mother to weep and in response, Krebs lie makes him sick to his stomach. As pointed out by Johnson, “Tears blur her vision; self-pity makes her deaf to the truth. This woman is unaware that she is deeply humiliating her son, forcing him into hypocrisy. In the same way he tells tales concerning his military experience in order to acquire any attention, giving that countless stories prior to his homecoming were made
In fact the transformation from a member of social organization who attends a Methodist college exhibits how he fits in easily; then on the other hand, the fact that he is in a photo with German women that are far from attractive. First, Harold persona indicates a guy on top of the world, as well as, someone who can possibly acquire any schoolgirl he wants when he is a man of the fraternity. While the second shot shows a profile of a fellow merging beneath the influences of war who does not care about what once was meaningful. Not to mention of his homecoming he does not desire to pursue a relationship with any girls, for the fact that he does not wish for consequences and has a taste for French or German women because they have traits of being straightforward and without consequences. As Johnston observes, “Krebs admires the girls, but their appeal vanishes when he meets them downtown. After all, he is seeking a life that is free from complications combined with the consequences. The intricate harness of courtship and marriage is not for him (78). Moreover, Harold Krebs return from combat depicts him as having an inability to love and determined to avoid complications which leads into a state of solitary existence for the …show more content…
Furthermore, in his role with family, he lied to show an attachment, such as at the breakfast when his mom asks, “Don’t you love your mother, dear boy” (125)? “No…I don’t love anybody” (125). Which causes his mother to weep and in response, Krebs lie makes him sick to his stomach. As pointed out by Johnson, “Tears blur her vision; self-pity makes her deaf to the truth. This woman is unaware that she is deeply humiliating her son, forcing him into hypocrisy. In the same way he tells tales concerning his military experience in order to acquire any attention, giving that countless stories prior to his homecoming were made