Ernest Hemingway

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             In 1954 Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. After winning he began to travel again. While traveling in Africa in the 1950's he was involved in two separate plane accidents that left him in poor mental health for the rest of his life. On his journey he became more and more paranoid and tended to forget things often. He was suicidal and had electric shock treatments for his depression and strange behavior. On July 2, 1961 at the age of 60, Ernest Miller Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun. .
             Ernest Hemingway wrote many short stories, novels and poems. In 1925 he wrote In Our Time which is a collection of short stories. In 1926 he wrote two novels called The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises. In 1927 he wrote another collection of short stories called Men Without Women. In 1929 he wrote another novel entitled A Farewell to Arms. He continued to write short story collections and novels until his death. .
             Synopsis: "Soldier's Home-.
             Krebs went to the war in 1917 from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture of him with his fraternity brothers all in the same collar. He came back from the war in 1919, after he had been in the Rhine. There, a picture was taken of him, a fellow corporal, and two German ladies. When Krebs returns, no one celebrates. He comes back after most everyone else, so he misses the hysteria. He also cannot get anyone to listen to his stories. Everyone has heard too many gruesome stories to care. To get people to listen, he has lied twice. But he is disgusted by that so he has stopped talking about the war. Even his lies bore people, anyway.
             During this time, Krebs is sleeping late and hanging around all day. He is a hero to his younger sisters and to his mother. She sometimes asks about the war, but she gets bored. The town has not changed in his absence except that some of the girls have become women. Krebs likes to watch them, but he does not want to be a part of their lives.