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A 6 page essay that discusses Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" and how it reflected the era. America's youth trooped off to World War I, wide-eyed and innocent, boys from small towns with high ideals and a concept of war as noble and worthwhile. They returned disillusioned and scarred, not only in their bodies, but also in their minds. This alienation was widespread and prevalent throughout the 1920s, which is the era in which Ernest Hemingway wrote the poignant short story "Soldier's Home." This narrative perfectly reflects this era, as it addresses a young veteran who finds that he has no common ground with the people he left behind in his small town and that the gulf of experience between them is too vast to be breached. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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noble and worthwhile. They returned disillusioned and scarred, not only in their bodies, but also in their minds. This alienation was widespread and prevalent throughout the 1920s, which is the
era in which Ernest Hemingway wrote the poignant short story "Soldiers Home." This narrative perfectly reflects this era, as it addresses a young veteran who finds that he has
no common ground with the people he left behind in his small town and that the gulf of experience between them is too vast to be breached. Hemingway began
writing "Soldiers Home" in the spring of 1924. In this narrative, he combines certain features of his own personal experience returning from World War I and combines this insight with
stories that he has heard from other returning veterans (Reynolds 189). This synthesis results in a story that illustrates "the gulf between patriotic parents who still believed the war propaganda
and their returning sons who learned fear in the trenches" (Reynolds 189-190). Hemingways protagonist if Harold Krebs, who returns to his small home town in Oklahoma. Harolds parents expect
him to settle quickly back into middle-class life, find a job, a girl, marry and raise a family. Harold finds it impossible to meet their expectations, particularly in regards to
his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist school, which implies that, at one
time, his religious beliefs were in synch with those of his deeply religious mother. However, Krebs is now so changed by the experience of combat that he has difficult relating
to anyone, and one feels that this includes God. Harold notices the girls and women that walk down the streets of his town, but he cannot bring himself to pursue
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