Soldier's Home

The Soldier with Doubts At first glimpse, the short article, “Soldier's Home,” seems to be a tribute to a juvenile man from a little village, coming back dwelling after the war. The first paragraphs recount the juvenile man, Harold Krebs and his boyhood dwelling in country Oklahoma. Almost directly, the confrontations start to surface. The swamping irony in Hemingway's tale is showed in the name “Soldier's Home” because Krebs's does not seem like a fighter and he no longer has a dwelling at all.

Krebs's had concerns about being a fighter from the start of the story. He recruited in the ...