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A Soldiers Home

The short story, “Soldier’s Home,” by Ernest Hemingway proves to us that the setting someone lives in usually influences theme of a story. This story goes into a time when things were much different than today and society wasn’t as unpredictable as it seems this day in age. In one sense we can see this young man’s whole life being over at the early age of 19, stuck with having to repeat the same cycle day after day. As the reader, I could easily see that this young man’s life is being predetermined and that it’s all happening over the course of a couple months. Life today is much different, as to say that our lives aren’t as unanticipated as they once were long ago.
In this story there are certain occurrences, which you can point out, that show us that this young man feels his life is going a lot faster than he would have wished for. In the first few pages when Krebs describes being in the war, he almost is telling the reader he is having the time of his life. ...

Posted by: Anthony Pacella

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