Soldier’s Home is a short story that shows the complexities of the human psyche very effectively by carefully leaving out certain details. It is an exploration into the contrast of what one can witness and go through and what one can recount. The soldier in this story is seemingly a simple soldier who does not care to talk about his war experience, but much more lies beneath the obvious.
Although the battles that Krebs took part in were never fully discussed in detail in this short story we are able to