Solider's HOme

There is a popular saying: “Home is where the heart is.” This is indeed true in Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home.” Because of the atrocities of war, the protagonist, Harold Krebs’ heart is no longer in his homeland. Hemingway uses setting to convey this irrecoverable loss in Krebs. In particular, he uses the war setting, the hometown setting, and the domestic (home) setting, in order to show the change in Krebs and his incapability …

…and eggs, he did not have the leisure to sit around reading the sports pages, and he definitely did not have the time to contemplate whether or not he was being “idle” in God’s kingdom. His focus was on staying alive. It was either kill or be killed. As a soldier, Krebs was not ! free to love or rest. “But the world they were in was not the world he was in.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**