No doubt he would want to leave since he couldn’t even connect with his family. Krebs only talks with his mother and briefly with his sister. When he does talks to his mother he is very distances. They are next to each other but also very far away. The connection that a mother and son should have is not there with them. His mother asks him ‘“Don’t you love your mother, dear boy?”’ and he says ‘“I don’t love anybody”’ (Hemingway 116). How can a son tell his mother the he does not love her? The war has changed Krebs; he is not that same person he was before he enlisted. He does not just question if he knows what love is, but also his faith. The war has shaken his faith. Soldiers see things that a man would never forget. Krebs could have possibly seen on …show more content…
Even though he stays to himself, he still seems to be interested in the women in town. “Now he would have liked a girl if she had come to him and not wanted to talk. But here at home it was all too complicate.” (Hemingway 113). He would rather them connect with him without talking like the French and German girls that he encountered during the war. The young ladies from his hometown and the ones from the war are different. There’s more to the girls at home, they would want a future with him. Other soldiers come home and get married after war, but for Krebs that would be a big step. It would mean for him to be linked to another human being other than the ones that enlisted with him. Young men back home are taught to court women and find wives but in the army things are different. “Besides he did not really need a girl. The army had taught him that” (Hemingway 113). The young ladies he met during the war are not like the ones back at home. They know the life of a soldiers and everything with them are temporary, so they don’t expect a future or a commitment from the soldiers. Krebs can’t switch from the war life to a normal