Analysis Of The Solider's Home By Ernest Hemingway

Over the years, studies have shown 50% of all marriages end in divorce. Comparing that statistic to the rest of the people who haven’t been married or have relationships like friends, relatives, or classmates. There is a possiblitly that some of the people in the relationship want to end the relationship or there is emotional burden. Throughout the schools year, the literary texts have given reasonable evidence that there can be burden in any relationship. From poetry to novels, the evidence is solid. One cannot experience love without feeling pain. In the beginning of the school year, a unit that stood out for some of the love and pain in the authors life was in the poets of the 1800’s. The poets spoke about how they loved their life or
Ernest Hemingway had a way of shocking the readers. How he portraide his character in the short story “The Solider’s Home” was eye opening, even though it was fictional work. When he showed how Krebs emotions or the lack of with every encounter made the reader feel the pain, sorrow, and heartache that some of the characters went through. Hemingway wrote, “‘He asked me to speak to you this morning and then you can stop in and see him in his office.’ ‘Is that all?’ Krebs said. ‘Yes. Don’t you love your mother, dear boy?’ ‘No’ Krebs said.” Throughout the short story Hemingway exposed the readers to the blunt personality that Krebs adapted while at war, after reading the quote stated above, it is heart breaking to know that a son could say that to his mother. They had their differences, Krebs made it clear to his mother that they differed in beliefs, but there was no way to mentally prepare a mother to hear that the son she raised didn’t love her. Another story that shows pain going hand and hand with love is in “Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Hemingway. A man and a wife are in Africa and the man has a bad leg from a cut on a thorn and neglecting to put iodine on the wound. He married the wife for money and at one time that was enough, now she takes care of him and he is going crazy. Hemingway states, “"Listen," he said. "Do you think that it is fun to do this? I don't know why I'm doing it. It's trying to
There are some obvious instances where someone has to endure pain because they love someone, while at other times there are some that require some interpertation. One instance that might not be as obvious, but stands out is when George is talking to Slim about how dumb Lennie is. George is explaining how Lennie was so loyal and kind, even when George was playing tricks on him. There was a time that George would beat Lennie, but Lennie wouldn’t do anything to hurt George. He followed every instruction George told him. For example, George told Lennie to jump into a river and he did even though he couldn’t swim. George had to jump in to save Lennie and Lennie wasn’t mad at all. He was appreciative that George saved him, almost as if he forgot George was the one who told him to jump in. That seems slightly cruel, but without George, Lennie wouldn’t be able to survive. George may threaten Lennie that he will leave, but even when George is so upset and yells at Lennie, George needs Lennie as much Lennie needs George. Later in the novel, there is another situation that shows how they care about each other, but there is some problem as an outcome. In the end of the book Lennie was petting his new puppy in the barn, when he accidentaly killed the pup. He isn’t very intellegent so he didn’t know what to do. George had told him that he couldn’t get into any trouble or he wouldn’t be able to take care