In “Soldier’s Home,“ Ernest Hemingway depicts Harold Krebs, the protagonist, a young veteran’s return home from World War I and the problems he faces when dealing with his homecoming and transition back towards a normal life. Hemingway speaks about Krebs’s war issues from an emotional standpoint. He describes his mental state after the war, but we know nothing about his experiences as a solider. The story of the soldier returning from a traumatic war experience and trying to find a way to come to terms with the small-town life he used to live, after being initiated into the adult world of the war including life and death, is an essential theme in Hemingway's writings.
As a young man coming back from the war, Krebs expected things to be the same when he got home and they were, except one. Sure the town looked older and all the girls had matured into beautiful women, Krebs hade never expected that he would be the one to change. After his late return from the war, Krebs moved back home in Oklahoma. Despite the fact that his parents' comfortable, middle-class lifestyle used to feel like home to Harold Krebs, it no longer did. The horrific experiences of the First World War had alienated and removed those he had cared about, including his family, who stood naïve to the realities and consequences.
Prior to the war, Hemingway tells us in the very first paragraph, Krebs attended a Methodist school in Kansas. He was not out of place then; Hemingway says "There is a picture which