Soldier's Home
             For us, to be able to understand the short story "Soldier's Home" must learn a little of Ernest Hemingway's' background. He graduated from high school in 1917, and he volunteered as an ambulance driver during World War 1 who was seriously injured. His experiences during the War changed his personality as a person and as a writer. In the short story "Soldier's Home" we see the protagonist Krebs who joined the Marines from a Methodist college in Kansas to transform from a healthy young man to a dispirit lazy human being. I think that Ernest Hemingway by writing the short story "Soldier's Home" was only trying to convey his own self image. Therefore, in our short story Krebs is trying to get the attention he wants as a war hero, he loses his perseverance, and the title of the story tells us everything we want to know about him.
             As soon as Krebs comes home from the front, he realizes that he came back late. He tries to impress his accountancies by dishonesty. He wants to be a hero in their mints, so he would satisfy his emotional and psychological wounds that the war created on his soul. However, when he meets another war hero, then he does not want to talk about the war anymore. He does not want to because he knows that he cannot tell lies to him. The person was there and fought as well; therefore, he knows what happened and that there is no romance or anything good in a battle. That day Krebs realizes that it does not worthy it any more, to tell lies just to get the attention he needs. The morals of the war are very different from the society that he had just left before he went to war. In addition, by returning back to the States his feelings changed about things and people. He loses the feelings he had for his mother. "Yes. Don't you love your mother, dear boy? 'No'" Krebs said.
             Krebs also lost his desire to go out and get a girl....