Life’s Consequences

Krebs who is consistent and convincing struggles to avoid the consequences that go with a career. Krebs on a daily basis keeps himself busy, so he would not think of work more less having a career. He sleeps late in bed, gets up to walk down town to the library to get a book; he walks through the town and spends the hottest

In Hemingway's “Soldier’s Home,” Ernest Hemingway is successful in making Krebs a consistent and convincing character. Krebs tried so hard to keep his life from being complicated. Krebs through out the story kept his true feelings to himself. He did not want his true feelings to show, so he lied about the war and wasn’t honest to him self or his family. In the story’s resolution suggests that Krebs has given up his goal of living without consequences. “He wanted his life to go smoothly. It had just gotten going that way. Well, that was all over now, anyway.” (150) Through Hemingway’s handling of Krebs attitude towards career, romance, and family relationship, Krebs may have given in to his consequences and attempts to relate to man kind.

Another consequence of life Krebs attempts to avoid is romance.

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