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You Can Never Go Home Again
Title: You Can Never Go Home Again
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1353 | Pages: 5.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
You Can Never Go Home Again
You Can Never Go Home Again
Here in ‘Soldier’s Home’ all the ‘should-have-been’s’ turn into ‘could-have-been’s’ for Harold Krebs. Krebs is the main character in Ernest Hemingway’s commentary on the old adage ‘you can never go home again.’ We find in Krebs the irony of the experience of war from a personal perception and the personal reality of it. Krebs is a returning World War I veteran trying to fit back …showed first 75 words of 1353 total…
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So in the subtle irony we find Hemingway’s theme, the lies of life. His point is that under closer scrutiny, in all our levels of relationships, interactions and perceptions, its true, things are simply not what they seem. As shown in ‘Soldier's Home,’ the character Krebs will never again be the same person he was before World War I. His experience points out that old saying, ‘you can never go home again.’
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