would dread receiving from "the pretty girls in fashionable clothes who are products of their time and place" (Westbrook 99). Krebs has had enough of young women, at least for now, and he simply chooses to avoid them. Even under intense emotional pressure from his mother, he does not want to "become a Charley Simmons and marry the girl next door" (99). Krebs's final decision to leave behind his hometown with its plethora of beauties underscores his view of young women as inconsequential objects of pleasure.*Paragraph Break*Both "Indian Camp" and "Soldier's Home" place young women in a secondary, objectified role. Hemingway takes this approach to focus attention on the psyches of his male protagonists, self-obsessed in their youth or war-weariness. It may not endear the author to feminist readers, but it does make for some powerful short fiction....
