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Analysis Of Coming Of Age Story Soldier's Home

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Solder’s Home: A coming of age story
Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is a coming of age story about a soldier who returns from World War I and has changed in many ways since enlisting. Through out the story he is seen trying to adjust and become his old self once again. Usually Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming-of-age stories are about teens and focuses on the growth and obstacles they overcome and experience from the beginning to the end of a story.
This story mostly based around Krebs trying to fit in with people he knows in his hometown once returning from the war. Now that he has returned he realized that he isn’t the same and is a changed man. While with his family but feels as though he does not belong anymore. Cunningham has stretched the experiences he has gone through, which illustrates the insights included in coming back while also looking into his thoughts and trying to understand the dilemmas involved in being a now veteran and no one understanding what he feels like. In one part of the story it says "At first …show more content…

According to Ernest’s older sister, “it must have been something like being put in a box with the cover nailed down to come home to conventional, suburban Oak Park living” (Hemmingway). Mentally and physically hurt from his war wounds, Hemingway entered into an idle part of his life. Ernest didn’t seem to know what he wanted to do with his life. It is believed that his family does not like him anymore since he is no longer the church going happy boy he once was and that also adds to the strenuous relationship he has especially after confessing that to his mother “No…I don’t love anybody” ( Hemmingway) This opens his eyes for now he sees that his faith and old self has been removed by the war he had to participate

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