gain.
             This can be seen in Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." Harold Krebs has just returned from fighting in World War I, and goes home to live with his parents as if he were in high school again. But the war has changed his life as it changed Hemingway's; and he isn't the boy he was in high school. Nonetheless, he can't seem to understand what is the matter with him. All the other former soldiers have found a niche for themselves in the community, but Harold needs a while longer to get his bearings; he plays pool, "practiced on his clarinet, strolled down town, read, and went to bed" (Hemingway, 146). What he is doing, of course, is prolonging his adolescence.
             The problem, of course, has to do with Harold's definition of who he has become. He recognizes he has changed, and this change is played out dramatically against the backdrop of a town where nothing else has changed since he was in high school. His father parks his car in the same place; it's still the same car; the girls walking down the street look like the same girls, except more of them have short hair now. People want him to talk about the glories of the war, but he doesn't think it was glorious; he was "badly, sickeningly frightened all the time" (Hemingway, 146). He feels he loses face by admitting that, but it drives him crazy to lie.
             It is not until his mother confronts him over breakfast about his future that he realizes that he cannot continue to live at home any more. His mother pressures him to get a job by arguing that "There are no idle hands in [God's] Kingdom," to which Har
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