1. 'Soldier's Home': Of Broken Hearts and Souls - Ernest Hemingway
... , therefore bears reference to his protagonist as Krebs rather then his first name, Harold - as one would be referred to in the army (by only his last name). As Tim O"Brian writes in his "How to tell a war story": "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest the models of proper human behavior nor ... restrain men from doing the things they have always done." Such is the case of Harold Krebs because what Krebs believes in is O"Brian's definition and characterization to the inference to war. But the world around Krebs refuses to accept this nak...
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