Themes and Stylistic Elements in the Soldier's HouseHemingway's short story Soldier's House incorporates many of the themes and stylistic elements that we associate with Hemingway's writings. The story of the soldier returning from a traumatic war experience and trying to find a way to accept the small town life he led, after being introduced to the adult world of war, including life and death , is an essential story. theme in Hemingway's writings. Part of the disillusionment that the character, Krebs, encounters is linked to his difficulty in constructing or finding meaning in the concepts for which he went to war, and which have now become empty for him: moments that could have made him feeling calm and clear within himself when he thought about it; the days 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, were now losing their composure and their value and losing themselves. (p. 111) Even Americans who did not physically participate in the war and who were supposed to glorify his efforts and perhaps make him a hero and reaffirm the values ​​for which he went to war no longer care about the concepts of glory. and honor, and therefore fail to provide him with a fulfilling or “right” feeling of return. The disillusionment is also reinforced by the fact that he arrived too late and that "the hysteria" having passed, "now the reaction had set in". (p. 111). The world he returned to is itself struggling with the consequences of the war and even trying to forget it. "She often came while he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but his attention was always...... middle of paper...... an abstraction for the reader, and at through this characteristic In his style he isolates the individual character, which fits very well with the thematic impression he is trying to convey in his writings. The character, Krebs, also 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 to make him connect or feel something makes him feel nauseous and uncomfortable. Thus, the relationship between style and theme. of this particular short story incorporates so many characteristic features that it has come to represent in many ways to me and perhaps many others, as it was even made into a television series in 1977, to the core. of the first Hemingway Fiction edition.) 1995.