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Home Sweet Home: Or Is It?

By looking at the title only, our first impression, in Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" may be a story of an old soldier living out the remainder of his life in an institution where veterans go to die. We soon find out that the story has nothing to do with the elderly; rather, it tells the story of a young man, Harold Krebs, only recently returned from World War I, who has moved back into his parents' house while he cannot figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And yet our first impression lingers with good reason: although his parents' comfortable, middle-class lifestyle used to feel like home to Harold Krebs, it no longer does. Krebs is not home; he has no home at all. As if he did not want to come back home, Krebs is the last soldier in his hometown to return home from the war. This is actually not an uncommon scenario among younger people, even such as college students, returning into the place of their childhood again. But......

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