Before the war Harold Krebs life seemed perfect . He attended Kansas Methodist
College. It seemed as though he had everything going for him. Then he had to go off to war.
After the war is when his life really changed. In Hemingway's short story "A soldier's Home",
the character of harold Krebs emerges tragically from his lack of work, sad motivation, and
After the war Harold Krebs seems to have a lack of motivation. He really seems
to do nothing. Krebs does not have a job, and it really seems as though he does not want to
do anything at all. "He was sleeping late in bed, getting up late to walk down to the library to
get a book, eating lunch at home, reading on the front porch untill he became bored and
then walking down throught the town to spend the hottest hours of the day in the cool dark
pool room" (Hemingway 18). It seems as though he does everything he can possible to keep
his mind off of things. Perhaps he is trying to keep his mind off of the war or maybe the women
that he met while at war, know one knows .
Before going of to war Krebs was a pretty religous young man, He attended a methodist
college in Kansas. It seems as though he did not think of women as much. After comming back
from the war he seems to think about women a lot . He notices that the appearance of women
has changed. When he left the womens hair was long now that he had come back there hair was
short. bobbed. He noticed that they wore flat shoes and high collars. He also noticed that all the
young girls had grown up. He liked to stand on the sidewalk and watch the girls walk by from
a distant. He would never talk to them but he liked to watch them walk by.
More than once in this short story Krebs states that young women are complicated and
that he wants a relationship but he does not want it to be complicated or have consequences. He
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