Throughout the short story “Soldier's Home”, and the poem “The Hollow Men”, Hemingway and Eliot’s use of a gloomy tone conveys how when soldiers return from war, they often feel detached from the people around them. After Krebs gets home from battle, he will occasionally run into another person who fought also. In this situation Krebs gets back the feeling of being “sickeningly frightened all the time” and falls into the pose of a soldier. Using such dark and gloomy words, Hemingway demonstrates how after witnessing the horrors of combat, Krebs no longer feels like he can be himself around other people anymore, which causes him to become detached from everyone else around him. As the narrator of “The Hollow Men” talks about the life and
