The soldier in Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” has finally returned home after staying in Europe after the war. He looked at many things around the town differently since his return, especially the girls. The American girls Harold Krebs observes from the porch symbolizes how he sees American society since his return and the foreign girls symbolize the society of the European countries he just returned from. Harold Krebs was sent to Europe during …showed first 75 words of 630 total…

…showed last 75 words of 630 total…be my beau, Hare, if I was old enough and if you wanted to? ... Am I really your girl? ... Do you love me? ... Will you love me always?” (Hemingway 74). As with the American girls, everyone Harold has talked to after the war has asked questions but each answer was not good enough. The Europeans did not ask questions. Instead they accepted Harold for who he was, not for the exciting stories he could tell them.