"Soldier's Home"una reflexión socio-literaria sobre un relato de E. Hemigway

Zusammenfassung

"Soldier's Home" shows from a literary point of view the social and family behaviour of a traditional community in the heart of the United States at the beginning of the twenties, when the American Dream had started to become a national aim based on ambition, comfort and money. The underlying image of the self-made man, as an example to follow, arises from all those principles and patterns. This short story represents un exception in Hemingway's way of focusing on American Society. All the themes: religion, war, love and family are considered from the perspective of an apparent outsider, a veteran of the 1st World War, who rejects his own past in the local community together with the philosophy of a puritanical, conservative und static society ruled more by custom than by the individual will. This story can give us an insight into the behaviour of certain characters in Hemingway's fiction as well as the vision of someone who one day decided to make his own future fur from the "American Paradise".