Ernest Hemingway (1898- 1961) was born in Illinois and one of the most famous writers in American literature. After taking part in World War I, he lived for several years in Paris, where he came part of a group of Americans who felt alienated from their country. During this time, the term “Lost Generation” came into life and was reflected by a new form of pessimistic literature which was performed by writers who endured hardships in war. Hemingway’s subject was often war and its effects on people and that is the reason why his short story “ Soldier’s Home” was a prominent one to reflect deeply the thoughts as well as feelings of those soldiers coming back from the war. Surrounded by the alienation and consequences was the soldier –Harold Krebs, who came back home with the lack of purpose because of the horrific things that those who grew up and lived through the war suffered. The alienation in this short story is one of the most important themes, in which we can see clearly how Harold Krebs struggled to readjust to a changing world. Krebs returned home and seemed to have a quiet normal life: “sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down town to the library to get a book, eating lunch at home, reading on the front porch until he became bored and then walking down through town to spend the hottest hours of the day in the cool dark of the pool room.” Everything seemed to be normal but in fact the discontent was lurking beneath this tranquil surface. His parents are unable to understand why Krebs cannot have a "normal" life, which means getting a new job and settling down into middle-American life. It appeared that Krebs lost his faith in traditional values like courage, patriotism and masculinity. He was aimless and reckless. Perhaps he had seen and done terrible things which left him devastated after the war was over. When the collision between different core values and Kreb turned into a conflict, we can feel profou