Within the first paragraph Hemingway establishes his main character Krebs as all American boy with religious values by writing, "Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas" (152; all page references are from the same text, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 6th Ed.). This one sentence alone gives me an image quite distinct in me head setting the main character up for the point of the story, his return home from war. Krebs before the war seemed to me to be quite joyous with his present surroundings, such as his college buddies, "There is a picture which shows him amongst his fraternity brothers all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar" (152). His character is that of a sense of belonging, involvement in activities that were of some importance to him, then h
Since Krebs was late returning home from the war, and the rest of the hometown heroes had made their celebrated homecomings, it was then that Krebs received no celebrated return whatsoever. Hemingway establishes that by writing, "People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the wars was over" (153). Hemingway to me is expressing how difficult a situation that would be for someone who happens to still be quite young, having been scarred by the horrors of war, who probably at some points longed for peace at home and the acceptance of his return, but Krebs did not get that. In the story Krebs begins to fib about his actual experiences turning his mind upside down with disgust for his real experiences. Even Krebs lies were not enough to make Kre
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