Krebs in Soldier's Home In Ernest Hemingway "Soldier's Home" there is a young man named Harold Krebs, who served in the Marines for two years during WWI. He returned home to Oklahoma to find out he had changed, but the town had not. Trying to adjust to the way life was had become a struggle for him. The effect that the WWI had on Krebs after the war mad his life at home hard to …showed first 75 words of 740 total…

…showed last 75 words of 740 total…the dollar, and his mother's saccharine religion" (Beegel 127-165). When Krebs found out that life in Oklahoma would never be the same again, he decided to leave and start a new life in Kansas City. Krebs experience in WWI had a great impact on the way he lived his life. Sometimes we may think we are doing something to better our country,but end up hurting the person who means the most to us; ourselves.