Reader-Response on Soldier's Home Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Reader-Response on Soldier's Home.

Reader-Response on Soldier's Home Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Reader-Response on Soldier's Home.
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Reader-Response on Soldier's Home

Summary: A reader response paper to the short story "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway. In addition to my brief reaction to the story, I incorporate other reader response for support.
The initial reaction I received from reading Soldier's Home, and my feelings about Soldier's Home now are not the same. Initially, I thought Harold Krebs is this soldier who fought for two years, returns home, and is disconnected from society because he is in a childlike state of mind, while everyone else has grown up. I felt that Krebs lost his immature years, late teens to early 20's, because he went from college to the military. I still see him as disconnected from society, because there isn't anyone or anything that can connect him to the simple life that his once before close friends and family are living. He has been through a traumatic experience for the past two years, and he does not have anyone genuinely interested in him enough to take the time to find out what's going on in his mind and heart. Krebs is...

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