Ernest Hemingway uses two types of characters in these short stories. One of which has an overwhelming illusion that's keeps him at bay to those who surround him. And the other of which has experienced the disadvantages to having an illusion is or has accepted or dealt with the remaining factors in his life.
             In the short stories In Another Country, Soldier's Home, and The Capital of the World, Hemingway depicts the illusions that one acquires when they are young. He characterizes the disappointments of the realization of the rareness of succeeding or succumbing to the illusion and the probability of an unfortunate outcome of the phase of disillusionment through experience.
             In Soldier's Home, Harold Krebs, a war veteran, comes home late from the war; way after the excitement of the returning soldiers has ceased. Krebs had to lie to share his experience but in turn was disgusted by the truth. The false impression that protecting one's country was his obligation had killed his faith in anything and his ability to feel or love anymore. The teaching of eating, sleeping, and killing had left him unfaithful and unresponsive.
             In In Another Country, the injured major had the illusion that being a valued soldier was having everything and always winning. He was a perfectionist who could not deal with the fact in order to have the true victory of winning, you had to lose a little first. He had many awards but did not believe in bravery. He was articulate, a superior soldier, intelligent, and seemed to have everything until his wife died. He had an illusion that a man was always a winner if he only possessed things he could not lose and in his eyes he felt that he had lost. He thought that it was his fault that he put himself in the position to lose THAT.
             In The Capital of the World, Paco's illusions of being a famous bullfighter left him void of disillusionment. Paco felt that you could not exist if you were ...