Repercussions
Soldier's Home
Krebs returned from the World War after two years of being away. He walked through the streets of his town but he lived in a completly seperate world. The hipe that the war was over had passed. Nobody cared anymore. Hemmingway portays Krebs as a distant man with no feelings and the culture of his home in order to highlight the effect that the War had made.
The war stole alot from Krebs. He no longer feels like its worth it to love somebody because of all of the deaths that he indured. His character is cold. His tone is empty. When his mother asks him if he loves her he says no. He felt no remorse for it either. This moment encompasses the effects before, during, and after the war. He had to have loved his mother, but the hell that he suffered through made him the empty man he is.
"Nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up" ( Hemmingway 71 )
"He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again" ( Hemmingway 71 )
"He had learned that in the army" ( Hemmingway 72 )