The beginning of the story takes an antecedent view of Harold Krebs before he had enlisted in the Marines. He is an average young man just like his friends. The story describes a picture of his fraternity brothers and himself and, “all of them [are] wearing exactly the same height and style collar” (Hemmingway 152). His overall personality complies with the way others think he should be. After he leaves college, Krebs enlists in the Marines and is sent into World War I. When he returns home in 1919, his view of the world has completely changed. Krebs does n

ot receive a flamboyant welcome like the soldiers before him. He comes home to a town where “the greeting of heroes was over” (153). This is tolerable to Krebs simply because, in his mind, the war has not ended nor will it ever end. Krebs has no desire to talk about his war stories to the townspeople, and even when he wants to, “no one want[s] to hear about it” (153). Besides, Harold’s stories are not filled with the pretentious lies like his colleague’s stories; therefore, his purpose in the war, in the minds of others, seems meaningless. These thoughtless attitudes from the townspeople lead Krebs to become an idle hermit who does not feel the need to change or grow up anymore.

Harold Krebs’s view on the future of his world changes in Ernest Hemmingway’s Soldier’s Home, and his feelings towards relationships, jobs, and faith in a God suffers simply because of war. Harold Krebs is one of the millions of victims to the art of war. The pre-war Krebs had a bright and hopeful future in front of him. Unfortunately, his enlistment leads him to deal with a future without love. Perhaps someday he will understand what he once strived for during college. Undeniably, he is no longer the boy he was before he came to know war.

Krebs’s attitude towards his family and religion after the war is one of the most concerning changes he undergoes in the story. The fact that Krebs’s is enrolled in a Methodist college

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