Soldier's Home - Characters

Characters

  • Harold Krebs, a young man who is tormented from his experiences in the war. He comes to the realization that he doesn't belong in his childhood home anymore.
  • Harold's mother, a religious woman. She tries to get her son out of his post-war trauma by focusing on getting a job and finding a 'girl'.
  • Helen Krebs, Harold's younger sister. She plays indoor baseball and looks up to her brother.
  • Harold's father, who is absent most of the time. He never makes a direct appearance in the story.
Works of Ernest Hemingway
Novels
  • The Torrents of Spring (1926)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • To Have and Have Not (1937)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  • Islands in the Stream (1970)
  • The Garden of Eden (1986)
  • True at First Light (1999 memoir)
Short stories
  • "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
  • "Indian Camp" (1925)
  • "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
  • "The Battler" (1925)
  • "A Very Short Story" (1925)
  • "Soldier's Home" (1925)
  • "Cat in the Rain" (1925)
  • "The End of Something" (1925)
  • "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)
  • "A Canary for One" (1926)
  • "Fifty Grand" (1927)
  • "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
  • "The Killers" (1927)
  • "The Undefeated" (1927)
  • "Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
  • "In Another Country" (1927)
  • "Fathers and Sons" (1932)
  • "A Day's Wait" (1933)
  • "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
  • "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
  • "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
  • "The Capital of the World" (1936)
  • "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
Short story
collections
  • Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
  • In Our Time (1925)
  • Men Without Women (1927)
  • Winner Take Nothing (1933)
  • The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
  • The Essential Hemingway (1947)
  • The Hemingway Reader (1953)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
  • The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
  • The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)
Plays
  • The Fifth Column (play) (1938)
Poetry
  • 88 Poems (1979)
Non-fiction
  • Death in the Afternoon (1932)
  • Green Hills of Africa (1935)
  • Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962)
  • A Moveable Feast (1964)
Posthumous
  • A Moveable Feast (1964)
  • By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
  • The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
  • Islands in the Stream (1970)
  • Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970)
  • The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
  • Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)
  • The Dangerous Summer (1985)
  • Dateline: Toronto (1985)
  • The Garden of Eden (1986)
  • The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
  • The Complete Poems
  • True at First Light (1999)
  • Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
  • On Paris (On) (2008)
  • The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)
Film adaptations
  • A Farewell to Arms (1932)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
  • To Have and Have Not (1944)
  • The Killers (1946)
  • The Macomber Affair (1947)
  • The Breaking Point (1950)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
  • The Killers (1956)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1957)
  • A Farewell to Arms (1957)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
  • Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
  • The Killers (1964)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965)
  • Islands in the Stream (1977)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1984)
  • In Love and War (1996)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
Related
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)


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