Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home In 1918 the young Ernest Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I. ... In “Soldiers Home” Hemingway uses Harold Krebs to portray a young soldier who went off to war from a Methodist college. ... Upon returning home, Krebs has lost all of the values that embodied his lifestyle: faith in God, involvement with the community, love for others, and the ability to commit to or begin a relationship. ... When Harold Krebs returned home to Oklahoma after the war, he was not received with open arms: “By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. ... When Krebs first returned home he did not want to talk about the war at all: “At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. ... Perhaps if the community had been willing to listen to Krebs and had tried to understand what he was going through, his readjustment to home would have been made a lot easier. ... Krebs’ definition of home has changed forever. He can never actually return back home.