I read “A very short story”, “Soldier’s home” by Earnest Hemingway

“A very short story”

This story wrote couples love-he and Luz. After the armistice, he come to New York until he had a good job, and will meet Luz. Luz went back to Pordonone to open a hospital, and there was the major of the battalion made love to Luz, she wrote to the States that theirs had been a boy and girl affair…but the major didn’t marry her, Luz wrote about it to Chicago only to got an answer to the letter…

In this story the last was so impressive-“A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park.

 

“Soldier’s home”

This story started from Krebs come back from the war. After back home, he was permitted drive a car that had prohibited to use before the war, and he love a girl, but he did not really need a girl, that the army had taught him. Also he did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences. The most interest and hope for his mother was Krebs settle down to work, and said to him god has some work for everyone to do, but he said nothing…also his mother said him “I’m your mother, I held you next to my heart when you were a tiny baby.” Krebs felt sick and vaguely nauseated, said “I’ll try and be a good boy for you.” His mom said Kneel and pray with me”, but he denied, so mom prayed for him and Krebs kissed his mother and went out of the house. He felt sorry for mom and decided to go to Kansas City and get a job and she would feel all right about it. He wanted his life to go smoothly. He would go over to the schoolyard and watch Helen who was his sister and he love play indoor baseball.

I felt interesting the scene Krebs read the paper in the morning besides his sister and mother-“She handed him the Kansas City Star and he shucked off its brown wrapper and opened it to the sporting page. He folded the Star open and propped it against the water pitcher with his cereal dish to steady it, so he could read while he ate.” I felt his egoism in this scene because he read the paper when the time of breakfast and propped it unstable places. It was the good expression to trigger the quarrel-honest, next scene went on his mother said Krebs, please don’t muss up the paper, your father can’t read his Star if it’s been mussed.

 

Bibliography

 Ernest Hemingway, (1958), In our time; stories by Ernest Hemingway, New York: Scribner

 (北村太郎訳、1982年、『われらの時代に』(ヘミングウェイ短編集1)、荒地出版社)