Response To A Soldiers Home

The character I chose for my character Analysis response paper is from the short story “Soldier’s Home” written by Ernest Hemingway, and is a soldier named Harold Krebs. Krebs has just returned to his hometown in Oklahoma after serving in the Army in World War I. I am going to address Krebs conflicts, what causes his conflict, and how it is resolved. I am also going to go over Krebs specific character changes over the course of A Soldier’s Home. The point of view of this story will also be reviewed and how it affects how readers interpret as well as react to Krebs actions. A Soldier’s Home story setting also helps readers to better understand Krebs. Finally, I will go over the Critical Reading Strategy I think applies to this story and would best help readers interpret Krebs. In the short story A Soldier’s Home, the conflict the main character Krebs is facing results from him returning home from World War I, in which he fights in five different battles. Krebs returns to his small town in Oklahoma after serving in the Army for two years, he does not get a welcome home parade or a thank you for his service. He is having a hard time readjusting to his “normal” life, family, and childhood home due to how much war has changed him. Krebs is also experiencing an inability to love, in the

“Soldier’s Home” being told in the third person gives readers the ability to see things from the town and family’s perspective while also letting us see Krebs point of view. In the story Krebs gives us insight to the battle he is fighting within himself after returning from the war that outsiders can’t see and does not understand, which allows the reader to have empathy for the soldier and what he is going through. The style of the point of view is known as journalistic. (Wikipedia pg. 5) This means it is written as if a journalist was writing the