Analysis of Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway Essay -- Literary Analys

The story, A Soldiers Home, is about a man in conflict with the past and present events in his life. The young mans name is Harold Krebs. He recently returned from World War 1 to uncovering everything almost exactly the same as when he left. He move back into his parents house, where he found the same car sitting in the same drive way. He also found the girls looking the same, but now they all had short hair. When he returned to his home town in Oklahoma the hysteria of the soldiers coming home was all over. The other soldiers had jazz home years before Krebs had so everyone was over the excitement. When he scratch returned home he didnt want to speech about the struggle at all. Then, when he suddenly felt the urge and need to talk about it no one wanted to hear about it. When he returned all of the other soldiers had found their place in the community, but Harold mandatory more time to find his place. In the mean time he plays pool, practiced on his clarinet, strolled down tow n, read, and went to bed.(Hemingway, 186) When his mother pressures him to remove out and get a girlfriend and job, he te...