Indledning
Whether a person faced the bullets, saw a comrade die on the battlefield or waited for their loved one to return home - the war changed every single person.
The changes might not always be visible, but they are present, nonetheless. The protagonist in Ernest Hemmingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home”, published in 1925
faces just that when he returns home a year after the war has ended. And just like everyone else, Harold Krebs had to face the difficulty of readjusting back to his normal.
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Uddrag
Harold Krebs, the story’s protagonist, is a young soldier, who is struggling to readjust back to normal life after he returned home following World War I.
Ernest Hemmingway describes Krebs through his thoughts and actions, but another huge part of Krebs’ characterisation depends on the detailed description of his surroundings.
“Nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. But they lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds that Krebs did not feel the energy or the courage to break into it.” (l. 51-53, p. 2)
The world around Harold hasn’t changed much since the war, but it has altered the war Harold sees his reality.
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