Two World Wars were recorded in the history of mankind and certainly not a pleasant piece of record. Millions of people had died serving their countries to fight for the so-called justice against enemies of their own. Death is probably a very distant issue for most of us, but certainly not to soldiers with blood on their hands. Death doesn't necessarily explain the physical end of a human life, but it can't also mean the loss of a soul. In Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", he portrays the life of a young soldier, Kreb, who went through World War One. The young man was perhaps traumatized from the ferocity of the war, for he could not love and live as a part of the town, nor as a part of the family. This story however, functions more than merely telling us the breakdown of a post-war soldier, but Hemingway also criticizes how war can destroy one's personality, religion and future by portraying the life of a veteran soldier.
             War can destroys one's morality. Kreb's two-year war experience completely shaped his belief to attach with another human being. When he finally got settled down in his home town, he noticed that the young girls in his town had all grown up. "But they lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds that Krebs did not feel the energy or the courage to break into it. He liked to look at them, though. There were so many good-looking young girls."(Hemingway 580) He also mentioned how "he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her." (Hemingway 580) This part of the story startles me the most for he was numb of emotional attachment. A young man in his twenties should be at least, wanting to be with women, yet he didn't even try to make a single conversation with them. Hemingway also interestingly brought up the fact that Kreb might have learnt in the army about raping women. He once claimed that &...