Conflict In Soldier's Home By Ernest Hemmingway
In the short story, “Soldier’s home,” the protagonist deals with difficult conflicts within himself and with others. Ernest Hemmingway shows us what it is like for the soldier, Harold Krebs, who returned home, to Kansas, from World War I in 1917, three years after the end of the war. He did not get celebrated like all the other soldiers that returned home causing some major conflict in the story.
“The men from town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return” (Hemmingway 166). The town’s people had made a big deal for all the other returning soldiers that by the time Krebs came home the reaction had already set in. They all thought it was ridiculous that he came home so many years after the war. When he was not celebrated it made him feel unwelcomed and unappreciated. This caused a build up of his frustration for his home and family. “He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted …show more content…
She struggles against him and making his life difficult. Krebs and his mother experience internal conflict between each other. She doesn’t understand why he has changed and why he isn’t ambitious to make everything go back to normal life, like before the war. We know he’s experienced some posttraumatic stress because of the way he acts out and tells us his change in thought because of things he has experienced. His mother does not empathize with him about his hard time adjusting to what he has experienced and his acclimation back into America. This causes a strain on their relationship because of what he is going through that they she does not understand.
Krebs’s mother asks, “Don’t you love your mother, dear boy” (Hemmingway 170). He responds quickly saying “No.” That’s when she burst into tears; Krebs first tried to comfort her by telling her that he doesn’t love anybody. He tried to explain to her that he didn’t mean it. Krebs and his mother reach a an understanding of each
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“The men from town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return” (Hemmingway 166). The town’s people had made a big deal for all the other returning soldiers that by the time Krebs came home the reaction had already set in. They all thought it was ridiculous that he came home so many years after the war. When he was not celebrated it made him feel unwelcomed and unappreciated. This caused a build up of his frustration for his home and family. “He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted …show more content…
She struggles against him and making his life difficult. Krebs and his mother experience internal conflict between each other. She doesn’t understand why he has changed and why he isn’t ambitious to make everything go back to normal life, like before the war. We know he’s experienced some posttraumatic stress because of the way he acts out and tells us his change in thought because of things he has experienced. His mother does not empathize with him about his hard time adjusting to what he has experienced and his acclimation back into America. This causes a strain on their relationship because of what he is going through that they she does not understand.
Krebs’s mother asks, “Don’t you love your mother, dear boy” (Hemmingway 170). He responds quickly saying “No.” That’s when she burst into tears; Krebs first tried to comfort her by telling her that he doesn’t love anybody. He tried to explain to her that he didn’t mean it. Krebs and his mother reach a an understanding of each
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