Ernest Hemingway Soldier's Home Analysis
In-depth look at “Soldier’s Home”
The story “Soldier’s Home” which was written by Ernest Hemingway the time period in which this story was written was during World War I. Ernest Hemingway could not join the military due to poor vision but he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. During his time, he experienced traumatic events also receiving injuries which sent him home. This front line duty coupled with his own injuries gives him a perspective of how life was and would be when return home from war. The story revolves around a young man who enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was shipped off to war. Krebs didn’t return home for 2 long years the story shows how the young man struggles and has the inability …show more content…
You also could interpret it as not being PTSD, and it being him just not wanting to fit back into the fake society and superficial lifestyle everyone lives back home. I think that Krebs struggles to mold back into the “good life” because of experiencing what war is like his care for what others think is important isn’t there. Milton A. Cohen, talks about how the community is built on lies and he just doesn’t want to take part anymore which makes him more separated from society. Krebs world is in his head and he is still at war wanting to be back with his brothers in arms where his bond was strong. Until he is capable of moving forward his world will be completely different then the world around him. With him still dwelling on what he did during World War I.
The interpretation of this story can go in any direction depending upon reader’s outlook or point of views. Hemingway wrote this story so that the reader makes his own decision on what the true meaning of the plot is. Mr. Krebs has problems and it all revolves around him going to war that would be the only common thread of any interpretations a reader would
The story “Soldier’s Home” which was written by Ernest Hemingway the time period in which this story was written was during World War I. Ernest Hemingway could not join the military due to poor vision but he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. During his time, he experienced traumatic events also receiving injuries which sent him home. This front line duty coupled with his own injuries gives him a perspective of how life was and would be when return home from war. The story revolves around a young man who enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was shipped off to war. Krebs didn’t return home for 2 long years the story shows how the young man struggles and has the inability …show more content…
You also could interpret it as not being PTSD, and it being him just not wanting to fit back into the fake society and superficial lifestyle everyone lives back home. I think that Krebs struggles to mold back into the “good life” because of experiencing what war is like his care for what others think is important isn’t there. Milton A. Cohen, talks about how the community is built on lies and he just doesn’t want to take part anymore which makes him more separated from society. Krebs world is in his head and he is still at war wanting to be back with his brothers in arms where his bond was strong. Until he is capable of moving forward his world will be completely different then the world around him. With him still dwelling on what he did during World War I.
The interpretation of this story can go in any direction depending upon reader’s outlook or point of views. Hemingway wrote this story so that the reader makes his own decision on what the true meaning of the plot is. Mr. Krebs has problems and it all revolves around him going to war that would be the only common thread of any interpretations a reader would