How Does Harold Krebs Change In A Soldier's Home

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In Ernest Hemingway's short story, “A Soldier’s Home”, Hemingway uses Harold Krebs’ war experiences and PTSD from the war, his lack of trust in the American Dream and in his family and friends and the anger and hurt he feels in his hometown and even in his own home to reveal the transformation of American that is brought on by the war and how many of the American values have changed. Harold Krebs is the main character in Hemingway’s short story and a war hero. As Krebs arrives back to his hometown from the war in 1919, he notices how none of the people in the town are excited to see him, most likely because he came home a while after the other veterans, and how he cannot get anyone to listen to his stories about the war.Krebs finds it odd how his hometown is acting and, at this point in time, he starts to notice a few of the subtle ways in which his hometown has started to change as a result of the time period. Harold Krebs goes off to the …show more content…

When he arrives home from the war the first thing that he notices is that the population of his hometown hardly noticed his presence. Krebs was a soldier in the war and when the war was through he waited for a while to go back home. Krebs was still very shocked with what he saw during the war. When Krebs got to town at first he “did not want to talk about the war at all”, but later when “he felt the need to talk… no one wanted to hear about it” (Hemingway 611-12) Krebs had a lot of emotions coming back from the war and when he learned that no one was there for him to talk to about the things he had seen or done while off at war, he noticed how the American values had changed. One of the very first

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