The Common Hemingway Protagonist: Soldier's Home
             Various authors, through years of discipline, develop their own style in creating characters. Ernest Hemingway varied his style
             by establishing an indestructible template for pressing characters into molded protagonists. This "template" protagonist follows a
             unique set of standards unlike any other character, produced by any other author. In his literary work "Soldier's Home",
             Hemingway creates the character Krebs to abide by this set of standards. By working within the circumstances presented to
             him, Krebs fits the mold of a typical Hemingway protagonist by overcoming his disillusions through heroic actions.
             To begin with, Krebs returns home from World War I to a society that he no longer feels attached to. It can be assumed that
             before the war Krebs worked within society since he is depicted in a college photo along with his similarly-dressed fraternity
             brothers. When he enlists into the Marines though, life becomes simplistic; you eat, sleep, and fight. The problem arises when
             Krebs tries to return from a simplistic lifestyle of war, to a much more complicated domestic lifestyle. "Ironically, Krebs is
             disillusioned less by the war than by the normal peacetime world which the war had made him to see too clearly to accept"
             (Burhans 190). Krebs seeks refuge from this disillusion by withdrawing from society and engaging himself in individual activities.
             A typical day for Krebs consists of going to the library for a book, which he would read until bored, practicing his clarinet, and
             shooting pool in the middle of the day; this is common for a Hemingway protagonist. Hemingway realizes "that with the
             disappearance of the transcendent and the absolute from man's consciousness, the universe becomes empty of meaning and
             purpose..." (Burhans 284); a good basis for testing a protagonist to see whether or not he's heroic .
             A more specific...