A summmary of "A Soldier's Home," which is a story written about a young man returning home after the war
...nd did as he pleased. Due to the nature of the war, he was forced to kill the enemy troops or be killed himself. He watched most of his fellow servicemen die on the battlefield. After the war, Krebs tried to bury the emotional pain he felt through his relationships with various women. All attempts of this failed. He returned home after a few years to his family: a devout mother who wanted Krebs to refresh his faith and settle down, a sister who wanted to feel love from her brother, and an unforgiving father who wanted Krebs to support himself. Plagued by the traumatic stress of the war, Krebs finds tries to find his lost faith in God, to tackle his inability to love, and to find his way back into a normal routine. Through this story, Hemingway tried to shed light on the life of a soldier. Though he was not a soldier himself, he probably heard many stories from the victims of the war as an ambulance driver in World War I. I feel Hemingway wrote this story as an attempt to release many his feelings about his own life. Krebs has an overbearing father who is not satisfied by his son's actions. Krebs' mother was very loving and wanted the very best for her son. She had her ideas which she often shared with little thought of how her son would be affected. Hemingway's parents were very similar to Krebs' parents. Hemingway went against his father's wishes by becoming a writer. He therefore felt ve...