" Soldier's Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway in which U.S. Marine Howard Krebs returns home from World War I to find that even though he has been irreparably altered by the war, his hometown hasn't changed. Howard Krebs returns to Oklahoma after fighting in WWI. His parents and friends view the war as a glorious venture, and they don't want to hear about the atrocities Krebs witnessed.
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- "Soldier's Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was included in the 1925 Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers and published by Boni & Liveright...
- During this time, it was late summer, he was sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down town to the library to get a book, eating lunch at home...
- The vignette preceding “Soldier’s Home” dramatizes the terror of coming under heavy bombardment in a trench during World War I...
- Soldier's Home [w/ intro by Henry Fonda] -- Short Story -- Ernest Hemingway.22 bin görüntülemeYayınlandı6 Kas 2016
- One of the stranger aspects of ‘Soldier’s Home’, though, is the relationship between Krebs and his sister, Helen: described as his ‘best sister’.
- Returing home after World War I to a community in which he feels alien, a soldier struggles to make sense of the past and face the uncertainty ahead.
- In this tale, however, the soldier’s home is neither a haven for former soldiers nor an environment for reminiscing.
- What, if anything, might make it possible for him—or for any returning soldier—happily to come home and to rejoin civilian life?
- “Soldier’s Home” is a short story first published in Ernest Hemingway’s 1925 debut collection In Our Time.
- The fact that Krebs comes home after the other soldiers will only serve to exacerbate his feelings of alienation.