Soldiers Home Essay

Soldier’s Home: Harold’s simple life
When looking at the title Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway, you can tell that the story will be about Harold coming back home after many dramatic events in world war I. He moves back to his parents’ house while trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. When he came back home from war, his war experiences changed his intentions of life. Even though Harold Krebs faced many dramatic events throughout his life his perspective of the future changed to living a simpler life, avoiding consequences and not following his parent’s religion.
To illustrate that being a grown up is sometimes dreadful, Harold realizes that all the traditional planning getting married, having a job, and having kids is not important to him anymore. After coming back home, a life changing moment falls upon him, a new view in the world. He accepted who he was and already has his life planned. Today many people
(Hemingway) He has abandoned his parents’ religion, he stopped taking his families view of religion, and began to lose faith after World War I. A person might discover a goal in life, something they wanted to accomplish. But Harold just lost all faith. He had a traumatic past in the war and his mother does not understand that he has been through a lot and his world was turned upside down. “He had felt sorry for his mother and she had made him lie”. (Hemingway) She does not know how much he went through and suffered because of the war. He starts to lie to his parents because he feels the need to please everybody. When his mother prays, he does the same just to make his mother happy and make her think he is doing okay. Religion is all over town not just in the home. “It is to the pub we should be going to understand contemporary religion not just to the empty church.”