Soldier's Home takes place in a small Oklahoma town. Hemingway doesn't directly describe for the reader enough of this town to visualize it in any exactness. Although, he did give a picture of Krebs' reaction to this place as he returned and also of the occupation this character held when he came home from war. With these things in mind the reader is able to put together their own picture of how this place must have looked to him. When Krebs returned

"At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all." In World War I, these places were actual sites of the battles that were fought. By using these examples Hemingway brings more life to the story because even though it is a fictional piece these characters are derived from real people and these people experienced the places that he mentioned.

to his hometown, he noticed that, "Nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up." If you can imagine a typical small town atmosphere, that must have been what Krebs was surrounded by. There is mentioned an ice cream parlor, a library and the pool hall. Accompanying them were maybe surrounding stores; a grocery store and a cozy diner. Krebs' occupation was merely sitting on the porch and reading. With the occasional walk into tow

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Approximate Word count = 609
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)