Conflict In Soldier's Home
“Conflicts” among characters in Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” helps the reader to understand the main character’s feelings and physical conditions - depression. The story starts with two different pictures showing Krebs before and after joining the army. The author stages the story of Krebs’s inner conflict to the relationship with his family. Indeed, the author leaves a lot of doubts that make the reader believe Krebs had pain of heart broken while in the war. The author does not directly describe the cruelty of war that Krebs experienced; however, through the conflicts among the characters in the story, readers can assume how the post young soldiers had suffered in the war and understand their trauma by the aftermath.
There are two different pictures in the story. The first one shows Krebs in neatly attired uniform is joining his fraternity brothers at college, and the second picture shows him and his corporal in unfitting uniforms with …show more content…
The repetitive statements, “He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences” (135) imply unhappiness of relationship end while at the war. The author ends the story by that Krebs would leave his hometown and get a job. He would try not to have any honest and serious relationship such as love in his life because he wanted to live without any consequences such as separation or death - loss of his loved ones. In "Soldier's Home" through the historical setting of World War I, , Hemingway describes Harold Krebs having trouble adjusting to society, lying to himself, and observing no longer interacts with people even his family; however, Krebs must lie to stay in the town and to survive from between reality and truth. As a result, he has to choose how to re-adapt himself not to fall behind the line of
There are two different pictures in the story. The first one shows Krebs in neatly attired uniform is joining his fraternity brothers at college, and the second picture shows him and his corporal in unfitting uniforms with …show more content…
The repetitive statements, “He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences” (135) imply unhappiness of relationship end while at the war. The author ends the story by that Krebs would leave his hometown and get a job. He would try not to have any honest and serious relationship such as love in his life because he wanted to live without any consequences such as separation or death - loss of his loved ones. In "Soldier's Home" through the historical setting of World War I, , Hemingway describes Harold Krebs having trouble adjusting to society, lying to himself, and observing no longer interacts with people even his family; however, Krebs must lie to stay in the town and to survive from between reality and truth. As a result, he has to choose how to re-adapt himself not to fall behind the line of