Soldiers at home
Soldiers at home (original title Soldier's Home ) is a short story by Ernest Hemingway , the 1925 in his book In our time appeared.
It addresses the attitude towards life of the Lost Generation , who wandered aimlessly through their lives after the First World War . In addition to Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald , John Dos Passos and TS Eliot also belonged to this group of young writers who lived as Americans in Paris in the 1920s and made their first literary attempts there. The name itself comes from Gertrude Stein .
In Soldiers' Home , Hemingway tells of Harold Krebs, a young US war returnee who is traumatized by experiences at the front and no longer feels at home in his old homeland. Time and again he wished never to have left Germany because he was there among men who understood him. Throughout history, Krebs has only had direct contact with his younger sister Helen and his mother. Helen looks up at her brother and wishes he could watch her play baseball. His mother tries to get him back on track with the help of religion by trying to encourage him to find a steady job and a girl to marry. In fact, Krebs decides to go to Kansas City to look for work. Emotionally everything leaves him completely cold.
The short story appeared as one of fifteen in the In Our Time collection . The two-part final story, the Great Double-Hearted Stream, is also about a man returning from the war. There it is Nick Adams who, after his return home, wants to find his old life again by going on a camping trip into nature.
The main work of Hemingway on the subject of the Lost Generation can be described as his novel Fiesta , which is about a group of Americans who commute aimlessly between Paris and Madrid without having a true future in mind.