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Soldier's Home
The protagonist is the main character of a literary work whose conflict sets the plot in motion. The antagonist is the character or force which struggles against or blocks the protagonist. In...
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Soldier's Home
Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is about a returning World War I veteran who fought in some of the most important battles of the war. There are essentially only four characters...
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Soldier's Home
The exposition is a part of the plot of a story which includes the setting, characters, and the basic situation. Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is set in the Oklahoma town which is the...
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Soldier's Home
Krebs is the protagonist and he is a dynamic character who has undergone change from his war experiences; he also shifts in his actions at the end of the story. For the most part, the change in...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs is a dynamic character because he goes through a change as a result of his confrontation with his mother at the end of the story. Throughout most of "Soldier's Home," Krebs, a World...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs is the main character in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." Harold is a World War I veteran who has returned to his hometown in Oklahoma. He had served as a Marine in...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs has returned to his small Oklahoma town after serving as a Marine in some of the most important battles of World War I. After facing the horrors of the war, Krebs claims he simply...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs is the main character of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." He has recently returned from Europe where he participated in some of the most important battles of World War...
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Soldier's Home
Hemingway reports that Krebs served in the second division of the United States Marine Corps which fought at "Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne." At the Belleau...
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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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Soldier's Home
Robert Young's film adaptation of Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" portrays its essence without duplicating it exactly. The setting is a small Oklahoma town and Young depicts the time and...
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Soldier's Home
Krebs gets back from the war later than most other soldiers, so he does not receive the hero's welcome that those earlier returners had. In order to be heard, to get some attention and...
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Soldier's Home
The moral, as I see it, in the short story "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway is the toll that war does take on men and women, even if they believe that they have been unscathed by serving their...
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Soldier's Home
While it might be easy to assign a moral to a Hemingway story such as The Old Man and the Sea (persistence, masculinity, respect for nature) it is quite a different thing to interpret a story such...
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Soldier's Home
Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is about returning World War I veteran Harold Krebs. Krebs has returned to his small Oklahoma town but is obviously ill at ease over his experiences...
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Soldier's Home
It could be argued that the protagonist in Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). His experience in the trenches of World I has changed Harold...
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Soldier's Home
The overall theme of the story is a soldier returning from war and having trouble going back to "normal" life after having gone through the traumas of battle. Krebs finds that the people around him...
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A&P
One way that you can begin an analysis paper on these three stories is with an observation of how the surroundings in which person is immersed affects her or him. This observation aligns with what...
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Soldier's Home
The resolution is when Hemingway's anti-hero, Harold Krebs, who resolves his conflict by abandoning himself to his disillusionment, leaves home because he wants his life "to go smoothly." After...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
Since his experience in the war, Krebs no longer feels at home in the small Oklahoma town where he was raised. The people in the town want to basically carry on as before and forget the war, but...
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Soldier's Home
"Soldier's Home" is yet another short story by Ernest Hemingway detailing the experience of returning World War I veterans. Harold Krebs fought in many of the important military engagements in the...
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Soldier's Home
After returning from World War I, where he served in the Marines during some of the most decisive battles of the conflict, Harold Krebs comments that he just wanted his life to run smooth without...
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Soldier's Home
Krebs has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder*. He has gone from a typical American young man to a completely disillusioned one. He goes through phases of not wanting to discuss the war, then when he...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs fights as part of the United States Marines in World War I, and he doesn't return from the Rhine until 1919, long after the first wave of soldiers has returned home. The first soldiers...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
Hemingway uses contrasting images in the form of photographs in the opening of the short story "Soldier's Home." The first photo shows Krebs in a fraternity picture with a group of other young men....
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway is a typical Hemingway story in which a solitary hyper-masculine figure is misunderstood by the women in his life. The sense of masculine viewpoint and a sort of...
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Soldier's Home
Krebs was reading a book on the history of World War I and found it fascinating. The war ended in 1918. He returned home in 1919, so there were not many books about the war available as yet. A...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
With much of the same thematic concerns of Eric Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Hemingway's World War I veteran, Harold Krebs, returns to his small town in Oklahoma to find that,...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
The main character in Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," is Harold Krebs, recently returned home to a small mid-western town after fighting in Europe during WWI. Krebs is clearly suffering from what we...
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Soldier's Home
Short sentences deliver facts, while the longer and more complex sentences provide commentary. Consider the description of the soldier’s stories. It begins with a short statement. Even his lies...
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Soldier's Home
To a great extent, Krebs can be described as displaced by his war experience. The war has left its impact on Krebs in how it has destabilized his perception of the world and his place in it....
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All Quiet on the Western Front
I think that the fundamental message of each work is how the machinery of war causes profound changes to the soldiers who survive it. In each work, war is perceived by everyone who doesn't fight...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
One point of convergence between both works is their fundamental challenge of the Romantic conception of war. When Krebs returns to his Oklahoma town, he is forced to have to address their desire...
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Soldier's Home
The title of Hemingway's story is symbolic. For, the title can be interpreted in two ways: as "[the] soldier is home" (soldier's as the contraction of soldier is) as [a] soldier's (possessive)...
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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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Soldier's Home
While it may be coincidental, it is, nevertheless, interesting that Hemingway has named his story "Soldier's Home," a term used in Eric Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel that...
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Soldier's Home
The original question had to be edited. I would suggest that Krebs is shaped by his historical period because he is forced to reconcile with the reality of World War I. He is forced to do this...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
Your question is interesting because it gets to the heart of a phenomenon we witness in returning veterans from almost every war: the inability of many veterans to remain connected to their...
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Soldier's Home
The answer to both questions is the same: Krebs had returned from the war too late. The town's initial excitement had died down. The welcoming ceremonies were all over. There were no more...
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Soldier's Home
Krebs, the main character of Hemingway's story, "Soldier's Home" is a person who is existentially out of time and place. After serving in World War I, Krebs returns to his hometown in Oklahoma;...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs is certainly the central character of Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home." The only other characters who appear are his family members: his mother, father and two sisters, one of whom...
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Soldier's Home
The setting for Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is a town of medium size in Oklahoma. The time is the summer of 1919. Much of the story takes place in the home of the young...
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Soldier's Home
When Krebs arrives home after the war, he begins to realize what so many veterans discover upon their return: that his experiences overseas and the horrors he has seen on the battlefield will be...