Ernest Hemingway

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e same time Margaret has fired her gun, seemingly at the buffalo, but really at her husband. This kills Francis instantly. Wilson knows Francis has really been killed by Margaret, but has it appear as an accident. The third story I will be analyzing, “Soldier’s Home” has only one main character, Krebs or Harold as his family knows him. He has just returned from a war front two or three years later than all the other soldiers. Krebs feels alone when no one will listen to the stories he needs to tell; the town has already heard them all. Krebs then starts fabricating stories for the attention he wants. He has two sisters but only talks about one, his favorite. He talks about how he loves her and she is the only girl he can stand to come to him and talk. He wants all other girls to go to bed with him and not talk to avoid complicatio!
ns. In the end he blames his mother as the cause of his having to lie. He feels that even she would not listen and that she won’t give him any time to recover from the war. Instead she is persistent in telling him that he needs a plan for the future. He decides to get a job to please his mother, and settles for his sister in his life instead of a girlfriend. “In Another Country” is about a man who has been injured in the war and is in a facility with other injured men to be subjects in tests using new therapeutic machines. Throughout the story, the man becomes friends with the other men there for only a short whil...