He wanted to be welcomed back and treated like a hero (even though he was not particularly helpful to the cause). However, the other people of the town were also to blame for the way Krebs acted because the story states that “People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over.” Krebs could have just chosen to ignore them and just display his pride for serving his country (even though he did not really serve very well). Because he was not received as a hero, he seemed to try to resort to other tactics to get people to feel bad for him or to pay him some attention. Lies became a major part of Krebs life after his return home. Even though lying about his service during the war made
ENC 1102.039 01/19/2010 Krebs and Bartleby The setting in Hemingways’ “Soldier’s Home” has to do with him coming back from war and no one actually receiving him as they should. He feels no need to talk about his experience at first, but eventually unfortunately he feels the desire to share his extraordinary experience from the battlefield but there is no one who would like to listen. All the people from his town have heard enough from the war; this causes Krebs to feel unwelcome to his own town. Throughout the story Krebs struggles from social dilemma with the community, to personal feelings toward his significant other. In Germany, the army men frequently pretended that girls are not significant to them; of course this is something that the Army would teach them.
Other character as well, but I think he represents the most of the characters in the book. First, when he got the letter saying that he should join the army and go to the war, he was so afraid and he didn’t want to give up everything that he had and go to the pointless war, so he planned to run away from home to Canada. But then when he was almost there, he realizes that it’s not the matter of if he wants to or not. He thought about the family that he left, the patriotic town people, and all of his memories there. He couldn’t just run away from his home leaving all the things behind him, and also he didn’t want the town people to talk about him.
PTSD changes the victims’ thoughts, opinions and perspectives on almost everything; it affects not only them but their family and friends. I believe Paul was afraid of this happening to either him or his friends if they were to return home. Throughout the first few chapters, Paul describes how ecstatic everyone, including himself, is for the war. At the end of chapter three, Paul says, “And an old buffer was pleased to describe us as ‘young heroes.’” The soldiers were viewed as heroes; this made them look forward to war. Before soldiers were sent off to war, they were viewed
We explore how retelling the stories bring up the pain from war experience, and it lets the soldiers work through it after the war had ended. The protagonist is unable to tell his war experiences and therefore drives silently around; this lack of audience prevents him from arriving at a similar understanding. Norman Bower is finding himself at a loss, he comes home to nothing, his friends are all dead, his girlfriend is married and he has nobody to share his wartime stories with. The structural framework that the narrator is represented in is; that his life goes in circles, he is constantly thinking about the traumatizing experiences the
However, the fact that the adult society sees through his façade reinforces Holden's alienation from his society. In effect, Holden retaliates by rejecting adulthood and continues to criticize its flaws as he indulges in them. He passes judgment quickly on those that he feels are corrupt and calls them "phony." This only further worsens Holden's situation and even further detaches him from society and help. But how did such a vicious cycle of self-destruction start?
Conflict and war was an experience he never encountered or embraced before. The realization of war was becoming a reality. When Harold Krebs returned home, victory celebrations had already occurred and the community was trying to return to the normalcy of life. “People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over...At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel…. did not want to talk about the war at all.”(Hemingway 187).
Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home Thesis: Krebs, the tragic hero of the story, lives in the past, goes through the motions of the present, and has no vision for the future. Point Map: I. The Past of Harold Krebs A. Must leave past in the past B. Relives past II. The Life of Harold Krebs A.
Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” reflects the experiences that he felt when he returned home from the war. He uses the main character of Krebs, who lives in a small town in Oklahoma just as Hemingway was from a small town in Illinois. When Hemingway finished high school he went to work at a newspaper but Krebs went to college. From there, they both volunteered for the armed forces;, Hemingway to be in the medical unit were he was wounded several times and Krebs for the Marines and he left college to serve his country, that was a time when the draft could have been initiated. Hemingway has come to use literature as a way of telling of his experiences during the war and he uses Krebs as the main character to do this.
“Soldier’s Home” Independence is the state of being free from the control of another, which not many are able to obtain. In the short story “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, the main character’s actions underlies this theme. The short story begins with a Vietnam veteran, Krebs, who is trying once again to re-incorporate to his hometown after being away so many years at war. After living in foreign countries for so long, Krebs has grown unaccustomed to his town’s social aspect and has no real direction that he wants to pursue for his future. Krebs had this routine of watching the many girls that walked down his street, but never actually wanting to talk to any.