"Soldier's Home" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was included in the 1925 Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers and published by Boni & Liveright in Hemingway's 1925 New York collection short stories, In Our Time. The story's protagonist is Harold Krebs, a young man who is unhappy after he returns home from serving in World War I.
Adaptations (1)
Soldier's Home was adapted into a 1977 film.
Soldier's Home1977 · film · 42 min · dir. Robert Young · IMDb ↗IMDb6.0Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pressures him to rejoin society.