Krebs In A Soldier's Home

Aaqib Dal

George Slobodzian

Essay

English 103

25-october-2017

Krebs life post-war experience

Introduction:

The story of Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway talks about Krebs who came back home from a war and have a hard time to readjust in the society where he came from. Krebs starts telling lies to people about what happens in the war because no one listens to him. Hemingway shows the connection, fear, and conflict of Krebs in the society after coming back from the war through conformity characterization, symbolization. The author’s message is that the experience of war is a very personal one for everyone that experiences it and that war distances people from society’s norms,

The narrator says:

“Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration, and when he occasionally met another man who had really been a soldier and them talked a few minutes in the dressing room at a dance he fell into the essay pose of the old soldier among other soldiers: that he had been badly, sickeningly frightened all the time. In this way he lost everything” (10). Hemingway reveals that all the stories which he tells are all lie to everyone in the society even the stories are a lie as he did not have a very good experience in the war. He speaks lies to those soldiers also who are with him during the war which makes him more scared and frightened and in this way he loses himself completely because the other soldiers know the reality what actually happens in the war. The authors show his character at one more place when his mother says to him, “Don’t you love your mother, dear boy? “(11).

“No,” (11) Krebs said. The author shows us the character of Krebs that how emotionally he

He says, “He liked to look at them from the front porch as they walked on the other side of the street. He liked to watch them walking under the shade of the trees”

(10). The narrator describes the strong feeling of Krebs toward the girls that in the start he is interesting to looking at girls in the town. He would like to have a girl. He loves to see them.

“He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences. Besides he did not really need a girl” (10). The author reveals us that he has good feelings before the war but after the war, his feeling changes completely toward the girl. He just looks them as he has some sexual feeling and wants some good time with them but on other hand he wants his life to be simple and he did not want any consequences with anyone. This all shows that how difficult is for Krebs to reconnect himself with girls in his hometown. (Hemingway,10).

Conclusion:

Ernest Hemingway shows the life of the main character in the story that how Krebs life