Post Dramatic Stress Disorder In Soldier's Home By Ernest Hemingway

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Historical Research Paper High rates of Post Dramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in war veterans have been seen for decades, as well as a number of other difficulties, including alcohol and drug use, and depression. This may not be too surprising to read, as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the news everyday, as are reports of their effect on the mental health of the men and women serving there. A majority of service members in Iraq and Afghanistan have encountered traumatic experiences and high rates of PTSD. Many authors have written stories about PTSD in war time. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something horrible and…show more content…
He came back from the war in 1919. When Krebs returns no one celebrates. He comes back after most everyone else, so he misses the craziness. No one wants to listen to his stories. Everyone has heard too many stories to care. To get people to listen, he has lies twice. But he is disgusted by that so he has stopped talking about the war. Even his lies bore people. Krebs is sleeping late and hanging around all day. He is a hero to his younger sisters and to his mother. The town has not changed except that some of the girls have become women. Krebs likes to watch them, but he does not want to talk to them. He does not want to get involved in the politics or the lying involved in a courtship. The army had taught him that he did not need a girl. Krebs likes the looks of the girls, but does not want to have to talk. Krebs had not wanted to come home, but he had…show more content…
On the Fourth of July, as he drives his father’s big Chevrolet around the lake, he realizes that he has nowhere to go. He reminisces about his high school girlfriend. He thinks about his friend, who drowned in the lake. He thinks also of his father, whose greatest hope, that Norman would bring home medals from Vietnam. Norman won seven medals in Vietnam, He thinks about his father’s pride in those badges and then thinks how he almost won the Silver Star but blew his chance. He drives around the town again and again, turns on the radio, orders a hamburger, and imagines telling his father the story of the way he almost got the Silver

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