Themes and Stylistic Elements in Soldier's Home Hemingway's short story Soldier's Home incorporates many themes and stylistic elements that we associate with Hemingway's writings. The story of the soldier who returns from a traumatic war experience and tries to find a way to come to terms with the small-town life he lived, after being initiated into the adult world of war, including life and death, is an essential theme in Hemingway's writings. Part of the disillusionment Krebs' character encounters has to do with his difficulty constructing or finding meaning in the concepts he went to war for, which have now become empty to him: moments that had managed to make him feel fresh and clear within himself when he thought about it; the times so long ago when he had done the one thing, the only thing a man could do, easily and naturally, when he could have done something else, now lost their cold and precious quality and then were lost. (p. 111) Even Americans who did not physically participate in the war and who should have glorified his efforts and perhaps established him as a hero and reaffirmed the values ​​for which he went to war are no longer concerned with the concepts of glory and honor, and therefore fail to provide him with the fulfilling or "right" feeling of returning. The disillusionment is also reinforced by the fact that he arrived too late and, once the hysteria had passed, "now the reaction was unleashed". (p. 111). The world he has returned to is itself grappling with the consequences of the war and is even trying to forget them. "She often came in while he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but his attention was always... at the center of the paper... an abstraction for the reader, and through this characteristic style he isolated the individual character who fits the thematic impression he is trying to convey in his writing very well. Likewise the character, Krebs, resists going beneath the surface and trying to communicate his feelings in a complicated and perhaps more precise way it even seems like any attempt. making him contact or feel something makes him nauseated and uncomfortably And so the relationship between style and theme in this particular tale incorporates so many characteristics that in many ways it has come to represent for me and perhaps many others since in 1977 it was even made into a television drama, the centerpiece of the early Hemingway. Works Cited: Hemingway, Ernest "Soldier's Home", from Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories (New York, NY: Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition) 1995.