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Soldier's Home (1925) by Ernest Hemingway
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I chose to read Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway, the story that portrays the conflict of the main hero with the society, which he does not belong to after the war.
The action takes place in Kansas, 1917, before the main character gets on the World War I, and in 1919, just after he returned from the Rhine. He arrives home later than all other soldiery, and he gets outside the society.
The main characters are Harold Krebs, a man who had been on a major war, his parents, and his sister Helen Krebs. His mother is a housewife, and his father is an office worker. His sister plays football in school team.
The story portrays Krebs’ military life, just before and after the World War I. Krebs wants to live a calm life, and he wants everything to be simple. He wishes to have a wife, but he does not do anything to achieve his aims, even talk with women. The war taught him not to be interested in females. His mother wants him to be as all other guys of his age, to find the job, and to get married.
The whole story is some kind of conflict, in which the person suffers when he does not correspond with format of society. Krebs realizes that he does not feel anything; he cannot love. The war defeated his soul. He finds only one interesting book about the war, in which he detects himself. This book helps him to understand what has happened to him.
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Actually, the story is contradictory. On the one hand, we see the influence of war on the given personality, how it breaks (or tempers?) the character. On another hand, not everyone returned with such inconsistencies with society format. This story forced me to think.
