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Reader Response
“Soldiers’s Home” (1925) is one of the remarkable short stories written by Earnest Henigway, which reveals the personal tragedy of the main character and downfall of his traditional values and norms. In fact, this is the short story of a typical representative of the lost generation, which reveals the full extent to which the war has disastrous impact on the system of values and social life of people, especially those, who witnessed the war with their own eyes as Harold, the main character of the short story did.
The main character of the short story has just returned from the war but he feels being a complete stranger in his native town. Even though nothing has changed in his native town, he cannot find his place there. He cannot do the routine job and he cannot lead the life he used to before the war. People around Harold have not changed but it is Harold, who has changed because of the war. He cannot live up with those horrors he witnessed in the course of the war and he understands that he cannot live in his native town.
In such a way, Earnest Hemingway shows the devaluation of the system of values the main character used to take for granted. He used to believe in the God’s Kingdom but after the war he understands that there is no God’s Kingdom. He fails to get integrated into the community and this problem was common for many representatives of the lost generation, whose life and system of values were ruined by the war. Thus, Earnest Hemingway reveals the disastrous impact of the war on the main character and people at large.