e war just to be heard: Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie, and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told. (Hemingway 69) Krebs, along with Hemingway, fell into a slump after the war. While recalling his lost love of Agnes von Kurowsky, Hemingway produced a character troubled by female companionship. Krebs wants a woman, no doubt, but he was not about to work for it. Krebs considers relationships too complicated and painful, something he has learned from a previous engagement. This previous engagement was the relationship of Hemingway and Kurowsky, a relationship that had badly hurt Hemingway. There is no way that Krebs, nor Hemingway, is about to go through that again. Krebs continues, without a woman, lying around at home doing little or nothing. Tensions deepen between him and his parents and he is eventually driven out. This is approximately the same thing that happened to Hemingway. Hemingway's sister, Marcelline, wrote, "shortly after his twenty-first birthday . . . his mother issued an ultimatum that he find a regular job or move out" (Waldhorn 9). Both Hemingway and Krebs moved out and got jobs. Beyond a doubt, Hemingway wrote from his past experiences. In "Indian Camp," Hemingway used his own relationship with his father to breathe life into the fictional characters of Nick and his father. By leaving his childhood and entering the war, Hemingway recalled his own accounts of injuries and love that made up the character Henry and Barkley in A Farewell to Arms. And finally, with his return home after the war, Hemingway uses Krebs in "Soldier's Home" to express his distaste for the home life. Bibliography Gajduske, E. Robert. Hemingway's Paris. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. Mahoney, John. Ernest Hemingway. New York: Barnes and Noble INC., 1967. ...
