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A 3 page essay that examines Ernest Hemingway’s protagonist in his short story “Soldier’s Home,” Harold Krebs, a young man who has been traumatized by his wartime experience. He returns home physically to a small town in Oklahoma only to discover that he can no longer return home mentally. He no longer fits in. His parents expect him to pick up the threads of his life precisely where he left off; in other words, to be unchanged. Mentally scarred, Harold just wants to be left alone and feels totally passive towards his environment. Hemingway’s story explores the extent and boundaries of Harold’s passivity, as he dramatizes the fact that Harold, while passive, comes to a point where he can no longer even pretend that he is unchanged, which means he must leave his parents and family in order to maintain his own identity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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physically to a small town in Oklahoma only to discover that he can no longer return home mentally. He no longer fits in. His parents expect him to pick up
the threads of his life precisely where he left off; in other words, to be unchanged. Mentally scarred, Harold just wants to be left alone and feels totally passive towards
his environment. Hemingways story explores the extent and boundaries of Harolds passivity, as he dramatizes the fact that Harold, while passive, comes to a point where he can no longer
even pretend that he is unchanged, which means he must leave his parents and family in order to maintain his own identity. When Americas young men marched off to
fight World War I, the young men and the nation as a whole believed the wartime propaganda that war was an ennobling, glorious experience. Critic Robert Lewis indicates that it
was Hemingways intention in writing "Soldiers Home" to show war "the way it was," which meant destroying the "romantic illusions" associated with war as he showed that it was "not
the way it was supposed to be" (Lewis 176). Hemingway achieves this purpose, but in a very subtle way, which was not to discuss Harolds wartime experience explicitly but rather
to indicate how these experiences had changed his internal landscape, and changed a vibrant young man into someone who is both passive and withdrawn. Hemingway lets his readers know
that prior to the war, Harold was different, in tune perfectly with the life of small town American. He attended the Methodist School, which suggests that prior to the war,
his religious beliefs were similar to those of his highly religious mother. After his return, Harold has difficulty relating to anyone and there are indications that this inability also includes
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