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| A Soldier's Home, by Hernest Hemingway
Harold Krebs and the "code hero" Ernest Hemingway writes in “A Soldier’s Home” how Harold Krebs was a man in pain. He was at a point in his life in which he had to learn to deal with the pain though. While his mental trauma may never heal completely, he was trying to face life again. He had some of the qualities of Hemingway’s code and some that were not of his code. Opposite the described code hero, Krebs thought about girls but he refused to let himself feel anything for them. As he put it, “it was all right to pose as though you had to have a girl. Nearly everybody did that. But it wasn’t true. You did not need a girl.” On the other hand, like the code hero, he was almost ritualistic in the way he watched them. While reading this tale, one gets the sense that watching the girls was a healing process. Things were getting better for Krebs in his life. He didn’t want any more consequences. The code that Kerbs adopted was one of avoidance, he cautiously stepped back into life. Krebs spent a long time overseas after the war. He didn’t receive a hero’s welcome. He had to reach an agreement within his conflicting self, unaided by others, that what he saw and did in the war was all right. However, this wasn’t easy. For a long time he kept his emotions to himself and refused to face life. For example, while he admittedly loved his sister, he wouldn’t go to her baseball game, so effectively he even shut her out. He wanted to be a part of it again, but only after some time he begins trasitioning to it. After all, he does go to the game. Krebs was not the typical “code hero”, he adopted a code of his own, one that was undoubtedly in transition. He worked for an easier tomorrow and struggled to reconcile his yesterdays. Carla Diana Cardoso, for Study of Texts - English, Translation course at ISLA Copyright by Didi Cardoso. This file is the author's own work. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. You may not reproduce it in any way without written permission from the author. |
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