Message of Ernest Hemingway's “Soldier's Home”

“Soldier's Home” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first compiled in “In Our Time” (1925). Ernest Miller Hemingway, Oak Park, 1899 - Ketchum, 1961) U.S. Narrator whose work is considered classical and twentieth century literature, has exerted a significant influence on both the sobriety of his style as the tragic elements and the portrait of representing a time. Contemporaries are not always given to fully appreciate the great writer. In the West, Hemingway's work is constantly evoked mixed reviews, heated debates and unfair attacks. We have some critics, fans of Hemingway's early works, were ready to deny the fact that he later wrote. Time will put everything, and may have already put into place. No one now seems to be no dispute that the works of Hemingway, was a reflection of our turbulent era that without it you cannot imagine a century literature. The main character of the story is that of Harold Krebs, a young lad shares his life's experiences with the reader, after which his life was never the same anymore. The story tells us how he copes with his life after being in the battlefield and how his life turned upside down after the trouble and trauma associated with war. The story begins with the third-person narrator addressing the readers to review some of the most cherished aspects of Harold's life before he went to war; showing a picture of Harold being with his fraternity brothers at Methodist College (Eby, p. 43-66).

The main motive or message behind the story was the revelation and the display of the feeling that it was never easy being a soldier. The story is more or less a portrait that shows aspects of Krebs's life in an up-closed manner. Faced with the terror of war, soldiers like ...