Soldiers Home Short Story

Compare and Contrast of
“Soldiers Home” and “How to Tell a True War Story”

Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” are two similar yet contrasting stories. The Protagonists in both stories are soldiers of war but they fought in different wars. In Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” Harold, was a soldier returning from the First World War in Germany. In O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” Bob (Rat) Kiley was a soldier in Vietnam during the Vietnamese War. Both plots and settings are completely different, for “A Soldier’s Home” is set within the town of Oklahoma after the war is already over. Its basic plot follows the transition phase for Harold, a solider returning home, from life in the war to normal