Eff 1 Kenneth Eff English Composition 102 0nline October 3, 2008 A Difficult Homecoming War is a terrible ebent no matter how you look at it.We’ve all heard of the terrible atrocities that take place on the battle field. Soldiers are exsposed to a hashlifethat most people can’t begin to imagine. That kind of experience stays with a person and can often times make it next to impossible to resume a normal life. “Soldier’s Home” by Earnest Hemingway is a prime example of the detatchment and difficulties that many soldiers go through upon return to civilian life. The story starts off pointing out the transition of Harold Krebs from civilian to soldier. When he was in college he was like everyone else: “all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar” (Hemingway, 185). Whereas the picture of him in Germany shows that things like style don’t have the same importance. Life is more about nessecity for a soldier and while the girls might not have been pretty, they made do. Soldiers find it troublesome to deal with these subtle change upon returning home. A lot of time the home coming for soldiers is made easier by the “heroes welcome. This wasn’t the case for Krebs. By the time he came back everyone had heard of what went on over there, so they were no longer interested in the stories Krebs had to tell. Krebs probably did and saw a lot of amazing things, none-the-less the towns folk were used to hearing sensational stories. In order to get their attention he felt the need to lie and say he had done more. His lies made him fee bad about about the stuff that he had actually done. “All of the times times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside of himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuble quality and then were lost themselves” (Hemingway, 185). Being able to talk about...