Various authors, through years of discipline, develop their own style in creating characters. Ernest Hemingway varied his style

by establishing an indestructible template for pressing characters into molded protagonists. This "template" protagonist follows a

unique set of standards unlike any other character, produced by any other author. In his literary work "Soldier's Home",

Hemingway creates the character Krebs to abide by this set of standards. By working within the circumstances presented to

him, Krebs fits the mold of a typical Hemingway protagonist by overcoming his disillusions through heroic actions.

To begin with, Krebs returns home from World War I to a society that he no longer feels attached to. It can be assumed that

before the war Krebs worked within society since he is depicted in a college photo along with his similarly-dressed fraternity

brothers. When he enlists into the Marines though, life becomes simplistic; you eat, sleep, and fight. The problem arises when

Krebs tries to return from a simplistic lifestyle of war, to a much more complicated domestic lifestyle. "Ironically, Krebs is

disillusioned less by the war than by the normal peacetime world

13. Ed. Dedric Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980. 273-276.

Burhans, Clinton S. Jr. "The Complex Unity of 'In Our Time'." Modern Fiction Studies. 14 (1968). 313-328. Rpt. in

Krebs heroic deed is displayed when he moves on with his life, rather than bringing it to a screeching halt. At one point, he

So how does one become heroic after denouncing so much of society? If alive today, Hemingway's answer may very well be

Burhans, Clinton S. Jr. "Hemingway and Vonnegut: Diminishing Vision in a Dying Age." Modern Fiction Studies (1975):

A more specific way that Krebs withdraws from society is his view of women and love. In a society full of talk, Krebs would

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