In ‘’Soldier’s Home’’, Hemingway illustrates Harold Krebs come back home from his Marine lifestyle and the struggles he faces when he finds himself obligated to deal with his late homecoming. He realises that life was not as simple as he hoped, and that he had lost everything. The horrible things that Krebs had faced in his journeys overseas, made it hard for him to talk about all he had seen, which is attributed to the fact that he saw some of the bloodiest battles known.
The main theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is the dark picture that the author shows of how society demands that all participants fall in line with the stated ideals. This shows the idea that Hemingway himself was an outsider, and thus he saw himself as an interloper in his rural hometown.
The aim of this written assessment is to produce an essay to argue and compare Hemingway’s experience and conflict being not as the society demands, and thus the unfair struggles of those who do not fit the mold with the main character of ‘Soldier’s Home’, Krebs.
The main theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is the dark picture that the author shows of how society demands that all participants fall in line with the stated ideals. This shows the idea that Hemingway himself was an outsider, and thus he saw himself as an interloper in his rural hometown.
The aim of this written assessment is to produce an essay to argue and compare Hemingway’s experience and conflict being not as the society demands, and thus the unfair struggles of those who do not fit the mold with the main character of ‘Soldier’s Home’, Krebs.