Soldier’s Home

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"Soldier’s Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that follows a young World War I veteran’s alienated return to small-town American life.

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Soldier’s Home canonical 2
Soldier's Home 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story
author Ernest Hemingway
collection In Our Time
collectionPublicationYear 1925
conflictType internal psychological conflict
man versus society
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Krebs’s father
Krebs’s mother
Krebs’s sisters
firstPublicationForm magazine publication
firstPublicationYear 1924
firstPublishedIn Contact Editions
surface form: Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers
genre literary fiction
war fiction
hasCopyrightStatus in copyright (United States)
includesMotif emotional detachment in relationships
home as an alien place
religious pressure
returning soldier
language English
laterIncludedIn In Our Time
literaryMovement modernism
literarySignificance frequently anthologized in American literature courses
mainCharacter Harold Krebs
narrativePerspective third-person limited
originalMedium print
portrays difficulty of communicating war experiences
gap between veterans and civilians
pressure to conform to social norms
protagonist Harold Krebs
settingPeriod post–World War I era
settingPlace small-town Oklahoma
style Hemingway iceberg theory
surface form: Hemingway’s iceberg theory

minimalist prose
subjectMatter World War I veteran’s return home
conflict between individual and community
psychological impact of war
theme alienation
difficulty of returning to civilian life
disillusionment after war
emotional numbness
family expectations
isolation
truth versus lies
timeOfAction early 1920s

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In Our Time hasPart Soldier’s Home
Ernest Hemingway bibliography includesWork Soldier’s Home
this entity surface form: Soldier's Home
Nick Adams appearsIn Soldier’s Home