Soldier

SOLDIER’S HOME By: Ernest Hemingway Soldier’s Home is a short story by the author Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway uses the setting of this story to enhance the dull mood throughout it. Beyond this gloomy setting lies also a theme, which is wrapped around the main character and his dilemma. Without these tools, Soldier’s Home wouldn’t have the effect it does on the audience’s perception of what these characters, especially Krebs, are …

…who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all.” In World War I, these places were actual sites of the battles that were fought. By using these examples Hemingway brings more life to the story because even though it is a fictional piece these characters are derived from real people and these people experienced the places that he mentioned.