Mood And Simple Dialogue In Soldier's Home By Hemingway
Throughout “Soldier’s Home,” Hemingway uses depressing mood and simple dialogue to illustrate how the lost generation was most often negatively impacted by the war. Hemingway uses depressing mood to demonstrate how the main character, Krebs, feels about the war. This is first seen when Krebs had first came home. “At firsts Krebs.... Did not want to talk about the war at all. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it” (Hemingway 10). This proves how the men of the lost generation were negatively affected because when Krebs first came back he did not want to talk about it. This is a depressing mood because the story says how no one wanted to listen to Krebs. Hemingway uses short and simple dialogue to illustrate how Krebs