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Soldier's Home
The primary theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is Krebs' inability to relate to his mother and to home life after his return to Oklahoma following World War I. After...
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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
The story develops two primary conflicts, Harold's internal conflict and his external conflict with his mother. After Harold returns home from the war, he tries initially to resume his old life in...
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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
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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Soldier's Home
Ernest Hemingway's double entendre in his title is a key to the significance of the setting. For, a soldiers' home is a veteran's hospital where old soldiers just sit and wait to die. And, of...
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Soldier's Home
This story, "Soldier's Home," is told from the third-person narrator point of view. As a former journalist, Hemingway was well accustomed to this objective point of view. Here, in this story he...
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Soldier's Home
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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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
Four paragraphs into the story, Hemingway reveals Harold's isolation upon returning from the war by telling us, "At first Krebs...did not want to talk about the war at all. Later he felt the...
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Soldier's Home
Harold Krebs returns to his small Oklahoma hometown a year after World War I ends. He is not greeted because he had enlisted instead of being drafted. Hemingway writes: The men from the town who...
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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
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
Krebs is reacting to the less than warm welcome he received after returning to his hometown after serving in the Army during World War I.Most of his fellow soldiers had returned home long before he...
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Soldier's Home
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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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
One theme of the story is that comes through clearly is that Harold has been changed forever by having gone to war. When he comes home, he is not the same young man who had gone away. Home is no...
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Soldier's Home
Let us remember that symbolism can be related to objects but also actions and characters. The major symbolism in this story relates to how Krebs lives his life once he has returned from war and how...
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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
Krebs is mired in a state of inertia and withdrawal upon his return home from the war. He quickly settles into a routine of sleeping, reading, wandering, telling lies about a war no one wants to...
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Soldier's Home
Well the irony is that even though it is Harold's childhood home, he feels awkward and not at home at all. He cannot readjust to life there, and its not a home for him at all. Not after the war.
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Soldier's Home
Krebs cannot forget his experiences during WWI. People in his hometown have romanticized war, but Krebs knows how horrible war is. He just can't tell anyone how terrible it is when all that the...
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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
The war and his homecoming has taught Krebs to insulate himself from emotion, and that "he (does) not really need a girl. He enjoys watching women, but does not have the energy to seek a...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is a story in which very little, externally, happens. Krebs is a solder who returned from the first World War to his home in a small town in Oklahoma; there is nothing...
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Soldier's Home
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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Soldier's Home
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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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
Krebs' view of women in "Soldier's Home" is an unusual and complicated one. When he returns home, he finds that relationships with women have become too complicated and chooses not to pursue them...
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Soldier's Home
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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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
The central idea of this story shows that the experience of war changes a person so much that he may never be able to fit back into the life he had before - those who have not shared the same...
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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
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
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
Krebs is an antihero because he does not have the traditional heroic qualities such as self-sacrifice, charisma, and purpose. He is selfish, listless, reserved, and lacking direction in life. He is...
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Soldier's Home
Disillusioned after having been in World War I, Harold Krebbs returns to his Kansas home. There he finds that people want to hear war stories, but they do not want the truth. Similarly, Krebbs...
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Soldier's Home
The story is told from the point of view of an unnamed, third person, omniscient narrator. From his vantage point the narrator can recount the sequence of events in the story, give insight into...
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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
Krebs finds that the people at home have a very different perception of war than what it was really like - "his town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by 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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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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Soldier's Home
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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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
That's a good question. Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is written in an often repetitive style that many people see as characteristic of the writer. The sentences tend to be short...
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Soldier's Home
Hemingway opens "Soldier's Home" with a description of a photo that Krebs has carried home from the war in Europe: Krebs and the corporal look too big for their uniforms. The German girls are not...
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Soldier's Home
Krebs' experiences overseas have hardened him in such a way that the simple things of his old life--such as prayer, ball games and dating--are now unacceptable acts to him. The bloody battles in...
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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 this story, I would argue that Krebs is presented to us as a static character and as a round character. He is definitely a character that does not change in terms of his core personality by the...