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What is Krebs's relationship with his sister like in "Soldier's Home"? How does he respond differently to her than to...
Helen is demonstrative and loving toward Krebs, and he is accepting of her adoration. The love they share is pure; Helen is not yet at an age when the psycho-social separation from family begins to...
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By the time Krebs returns, his hometown had quit “the greeting of heroes” and “the reaction had set in.” What is...
Krebs has missed the big celebration for returning veterans. As Hemingway says, “People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over,”...
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Describe the conflicts revealed in the conversation between Mrs Krebs and Harld at the end of the story...
In the conversation between Mrs. Krebs and Harold at the end of the story, Mrs. Krebs asks Harold if he has decided what he is going to do with the rest of his life. She and her husband want...
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What kind of person was Harold Krebs before the war in Hemingway's "Soldier's Home"?
While there is not much evidence to say for sure what Harold Krebs was like before he went off to war, it might be safe to say, judging from the text, that he was probably a conformist and an...
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How is Krebs from "Soldier's Home" an example of an anti-hero, and how does he compare with the young protagonists of...
Hemingway, the author of this short story, contributed the modern American hero to American Literature. One of the key characteristics of this hero is that he is thoroughly disillusioned with...
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What quotes from "Soldier's Home" show that Harold has been mentally and/or physically separated from society?
At the beginning of the story, Krebs's disconnection from society is made evident when the narrator observes "he came back much too late" from the war. The welcome ceremonies for the returning...
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In the story "Soldier's Home," how does the vision of Germany and the Rhine in the second paragraph contrast with the...
In order to understand the significance of the contrast between the two pictures, it's important to get an overview of the entire story. "Soldier's Home," by Ernest Hemingway, tells of a soldier...
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Although Krebs's father and grandfather are mentioned, all of the encounters shown in the story are those with women....
That's a very good question. One might argue that the lack of male figures in the story is a reflection of the great damage that has been done to men by the bloody cataclysm of the First World War....
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In "Soldier's Home," what does Kreb's statement, "you did not need a girl unless you thought about them," reveal...
Krebs’s experience in the war taught him to simplify his feelings. In fact, it is as if the war taught him to suppress all feeling. When the narrator says that Krebs's lies in the pool room robbed...
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What does Krebs's attitude toward the girls in town reveal about his state of mind?
Krebs is emotionally damaged from his war experience and feels unable to make himself understood to anyone except the veterans who can empathize with him. He is interested in girls and enjoys...
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In The Soldier's Home, what is Krebs' reaction to reading a history of all battles he has been in?
Krebs thinks the history book about all the battles he has been in is "the most interesting reading he has ever done. He wishes there were more maps...now he was really learning about the...
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In "The Solider's Home," what does Krebs mean by wanting "to live along without consequences"?...
A Hemingway code hero, Krebs wants to "live alone without consequences" because he has felt the "nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration." In short, he does not...
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How has the war changed Harold Krebs' attitudes toward work and women in the story "Soldier's Home"?
When Harold Krebs returns from having experienced the horrors of World War I in the fields of France where many were slaughtered and gassed, he has "a distaste for everything." Krebs does not feel...
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How does Krebs spend his days in Hemingway's "Soldier's Home"?
Krebs spends his days in a state of listlessness; he does not want to become involved in the intrigues and politics of his town's life. Because he finds things at home "too complicated," he...
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Why does "Soldier's Home" mention the names of the battles of "Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel......
When WWI was declared and the US became involved, Ernest Hemingway was eager to join the fight. However, the Army rejected him because of his poor vision. Hemingway volunteered to become an...
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In what way does the title "Soldier's Home" have more than one meaning?
It's almost certain that Hemingway intended for the title of his short story "Soldier's Home" to be ambiguous and to be interpreted in different ways. The most obvious meaning of the title is that...
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Describe the way Krebs spends his days in "Soldier's Home."
Krebs leads a monotonous life and seems to prefer it that way. He is recovering from all the emotions he experienced in Europe during World War I. He returns to his home town in Oklahoma in the...
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Explain how Krebs's war experiences are present throughout the story even though we get no detail about them.
In "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonist returns home after World War I and finds himself permanently changed. He can no longer relate to the people in his community or even to his...
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What do the characters' emotions and behavior reveal about their psychological states in "Soldier's Home"?
The third person limited narration really allows readers access to the emotional state of Harold Krebs, who has recently returned home from fighting in World War I. Harold feels completely...
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soldiers home How would you state the theme of "The Soldier's Home"? What does the story reveal to you about the way...
I guess the central irony of this story is the way that Krebs finds himself alienated from the very society and culture that he risked his life to protect. This story brilliantly presents us with a...
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Why does Krebs avoid complications and consequences ? How has the war changed his attitudes towards work and women?
Krebs has been through a great ordeal in Europe during World War I. It has been a traumatic experience as well as a learning experience. He feels like an entirely different person, but he does not...
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In "Soldier's Home," what does Harold Krebs's relationship with his sister show about him? How does he change in the...
The narrator tells us that Helen is his “best sister.” While eating breakfast, she presents herself as assertive, possibly challenging his masculinity, which is already feeling very weak after his...
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In "The Soldier's Home," what is the conflict?
The central conflict of Hemingway's story "Soldier's Home" is the problem of Krebs's re-entry into his old life after what he experienced in World War I. While Krebs desires to speak with someone...
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In "The Soldier's Home," what makes Krebs decide to leave home?
In a nut shell, Harold Krebs leaves his home town because he can no longer relate to any of the people around him. That includes his family. Harold Krebs is a war veteran. Like most war veterans,...
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How does "Soldiers Home" illustrate the "iceberg principle?"
Hemingway could have added a great deal of description of what Harold Krebs had gone through during the fighting in Europe in World War I, but he chose to focus on how Krebs was feeling after he...
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How could Harold Krebs’s relationships with his family members, including his father, mother and sisters, be described?
It's plausible to say that Harold Krebs had a decent relationship with his family before he went off to war. His sisters, especially, look up to him as evidenced by Helen's claim that she wants him...
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Why can’t Krebs pray with his mother?
Krebs' soul has effectively been corrupted by his experiences of war. Despite attending a Methodist college, Krebs appears to have lost his faith. But it's so much more than that. As well as no...
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How does Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" reflect the idea that the American Dream does not exist?
"Soldier's Home" is not so much about the death of the American Dream as it is about Krebs's ability or desire to pursue what we have come to believe is the American Dream: upward mobility in...
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What point of view is used in "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway?
The detached third-person perspective used by Hemingway in "Soldier's Home" is entirely appropriate given the story's subject matter. What Hemingway wants to convey is the sense of detachment that...
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In "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway, Krebs returns home to find that his home town aid quit "the greeting of...
Krebs is the protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home," which is set in 1919, after World War I is over. Krebs was not drafted like so many others were; instead, he enlisted in...
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What is the ironic meaning of " soldier's home" by Ernest Hemingway?
At the beginning of World War I, combatant soldiers, steeped in nationalism, looked at war as a way to demonstrate their courage and achieve glory. Although they didn't enter the war until 1917 and...
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How does Krebs in "Soldier's Home" show the qualities of a Hemingway hero?
Well, I don't know if the word "hero" is entirely accurate. When we think of the fiction of Hemmingway we see he is actually very adept at creating protagonists that are more accurately described...
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How is Krebs an example of anti-hero in "Soldier's Home"?
Unfortunately I had to edit your question as it actually asked multiple questions. Enotes regulations only allow you to ask one question, so I have focussed on your first question. When we consider...
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What does Krebs mean by wanting "to live along without any consequences"? Why might he feel that way?
Krebs, who suffers from his experiences in the war that do not match up with the perceptions of his family and the residents of his town, simply desires a quiet life of no commitments, a life...
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Why does Hemingway refer to the protagonist as Krebs rather than Harold? What is the significance of his sister...
The short story "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway tells of a soldier named Harold Krebs who returns to his home town in Oklahoma after World War I. At first, he does not want to talk about the...
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What is the resolution to Krebs's conflict?
Krebs tries to resolve his inner conflict by rejecting his home town and all that it represents. Since returning from the war, he feels completely alienated from those around him, as they haven't...
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What is Krebs' reaction to reading a history of the battle in which he fought?
Krebs is actually encouraged by reading the history of his war. Hemingway writes Krebs "sat there on the porch reading a book on the war. It was a history and he was reading about all the...
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Why does Krebs stay in Europe so long?
When a big war like World War I ends, the servicemen do not immediately return home. There is a long period of processing and transporting thousands of men back to the U.S. There is also the...
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I am looking for details on why the narrator mentions that the fraternity brothers were all "wearing exactly the same...
Good question! This easily overlooked detail in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" may contribute in more than one way to the meaning of the work as a whole. For one, this photograph...
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What is a symbol in "Soldier's Home"?
There are several symbols in this story of the traumatized soldier Harold Krebs. He comes home from World War I to his small town in Oklahoma and does not find anyone who can understand him or what...
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What does the photograph of Krebs, the corporal, and the german girls reveal?
The photograph is an interesting detail. It’s the second photograph mentioned at the beginning of the story: the first is the photo of Krebs in college with his fraternity brothers, all with the...
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What is the tone of "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway?
It is clear from the subject of this story and the way that Hemingway examines the long-term consequences of war on humans that this story is not a joyful one with a happy ending. Instead, the...
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What is the psychological problem with the story "Soldier's Home"?
There are two psychological problems in the story, "Soldier's Home." The first is the psychological impact upon Kreb of his experiences fighting in World War I. This impact is generally understood...
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In the story "Soldier's Home," why will Krebs not talk about the battles to the people at home?
Hemingway centers many of his stories novels around his personal experiences, especially those from WWI where he was wounded an ambulance driver. He is one of the authors named "The Lost...
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What makes Krebs decide to leave home?
Krebs decides to leave home because he can no longer relate to the people around him. This is an all-too-common experience among war veterans. Krebs witnessed a lot of death and suffering at first...
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Describe the conflicts revealed in the conversation between Mrs. Krebs and Harold at the end of the story. What...
In Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" Harold Krebs has returned from World War I a changed man. None of the people in his small Oklahoma town understand the horrors he experienced. They...
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What is Hemingway's attitude toward the main character, Harold Krebs, in "Soldier's Home"?
We can only know Hemingway's attitude toward the protagonist in "Soldier's Home" through the narrator of the story. You should be careful of associating a narrator or speaker with the author....
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What is the setting for Hemingway's "Soldier's Home"?
As the previous educator notes, the physical setting of "Soldier's Home" is a small town in the Midwest, not unlike Hemingway's own hometown of Elk Grove, Illinois, to which he, like Krebs, also...
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In the story "Soldier's Home," what is the theme? theme
I see two primary themes in Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Soldier's Home." One is the how fear can paralyze and take everything from you, and the other is how conformity can leave one isolated....
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How does the style reinforce the content of the story, "Soldier's Home"?
Hemingway's style is that of a journalist and a soldier: plain, tough, intimate without sounding emotional, trustworthy, direct. In a word, it is full of ethos, credibility. Hemingway was...
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