Ernest Hemingway'sshort story "Soldier's Home" examines the way in which World War I has fundamentally remade one soldier, entirely changing his sense not only of who he is but also of the nature of the world. A simple diagnosis of the protagonist, Harold Krebs, would that he has been disillusioned: When people in his home town come to him and ask him for stories about the glories of fighting and war he simply cannot imagine what to say to them, because his experiences have shown him that there can never be any real glory in killing other young men. But the change in Krebs is more fundamental than simple disillusionment: He has in fact been made in some important way less than completely human by his experiences. He no longer wants - and indeed is no longer capable of - connecting in an auth
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