Ernest Hemmingway's influence on his book
             In 1995, Scribner published "The Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway." These were just a few of some of Ernest Hemmingway's many short stories. In many writer's opinions they will tell you that Ernest Hemmingway wrote some of the best short stories of his time. In "The Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway" he writes a story called "Soldier's Home." As with many of his stories that he writes, Hemmingway adds similar features or certain events in the story that are very significant to events or people that he had met in his life. In Soldier's Home Harold Krebs and his mother in many ways represent Ernest Hemmingway and his mother. Harold Krebs' struggle with his past war experiences and memories may also have been contributed by Ernest Hemmingway's life and experience in war.
             The character of Harold Krebs in many ways is significant to Ernest Hemmingway. Throughout the story Krebs struggles to find a place and niche in his hometown, constantly confused about what his role is in his hometown(Bernardo par. 1). Ernest Hemmingway was never able to live off of just his stories alone, and he was never able to just focus on writing. He wrote for newspapers to pay his bills. Hemmingway also had four wives, he divorced three of them and ended his life while with the fourth wife. He was never truly happy with any of his wives, and showed his struggles with women through Harold Krebs' thoughts and views on women. Harold Krebs loved to look at women, but he constantly stated that "they lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds."
             Harold Krebs' mother may have been based on Ernest Hemmingway's mother. Krebs' mother showed love for Krebs by allowing him to live with his parents, and also talked to Krebs about things that could
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