Changes In Soldier's Home By Ernest Hemingway

There have been and there are many men and women who enlist themselves into the army and go fight at war. These men and women go to war, and some of them return home and are greatly affected by the experience they went through during their time at war. There are also many people who never truly understand what life at war is like and how it completely changes an individual. In “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, the author presents the changes that Krebs went through while he was at war and how his way of looking and living life has changed. Hemingway uses consequences and feelings to show how Krebs way of looking at life has changed.

In “Soldier’s Home” Hemingway uses consequences to show how Krebs way of looking and living life has changed. Krebs mentions that “he doesn’t want consequences ever again”(Hemingway, 1925 ,pp. 2). Krebs mentions this because at war every step, every action, and everything that he did had a huge consequence. If he took the wrong action there were terrible consequences, and Krebs comes home tired of having to deal with consequences

While talking to his mother Krebs mentions that “he doesn’t love anybody” (Hemingway, 1925, pp. 5). Krebs feels this way because his time at war made him adapt and stopped him from getting close to anyone. During his time at war, he had to deal with death every minute that he spent there and he learned to just work with those he came across but never feel friendship for anyone, because if he considered them friends their death would be a lot more difficult for him to deal with. He lived through so many deaths that he stopped feeling love and when he returned home he didn’t want to feel any love for his family members because he was afraid of losing them and if he felt love for them their death would be a lot more difficult on him. By using feelings Hemingway presents how Krebs way of looking at life has