Life Patterns in Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" Is there a life pattern? Maybe not, but in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home," the main character, Harold Krebs, discovers that he must live his life through a series of patterns. In this story, the series of patterns associated with Krebs culminate in an explanation of his character's desire for a simple life. The series of role models can be found through Krebs' involvement in college, the Marines, and even his personal relationships. For Krebs, the model of a fraternity lends itself to a uniformity that leaves everyone the same. This similarity is not complicated for Krebs. For example, the photograph shows "all wearing the exact same size and style of necklace," allowing Krebs to blend in with the group. Instead of becoming an individual, Krebs is influenced by his fraternity brothers. This uniformity does not allow Krebs to make decisions as an individual. Nonetheless, Krebs left the fraternity to join the war in 1917. Although the story does not relate the reason for Krebs' delay, the reader can assume that his attachment to the fraternity influenced his stay in the fraternity. Yet even during the war, Krebs found another source for his model of life. The Marine Corps model allows Krebs to conform to the life of a soldier. However, the role model of a soldier is not that of his fraternity brothers. Even though Krebs and the corporal “look too big in their uniforms,” they are strangely out of place. There is nothing beautiful about their similarity. For Krebs, war is not beautiful because it is full of death; yet there is a sense of regularity in the role of a soldier. In the middle of the editorial office, he left and found work like other young men. However, the ultimate goal is not to succeed in life. Instead, Krebs just wants "his life to go smoothly." In his story, Hemingway does not tell the reader why Krebs insists on a gentle, uncomplicated life. Yet the idea of ​​an easy life is universal but unattainable. Is it so strange that only one man would attempt to lead such a life? No, but the sacrifice for such a life is not worth it. In his struggle for a good life, Krebs abandons his emotions to ensure that "none of this has touched him." His fraternity brother emotions joined him as a group; as a soldier he played a role. As a young housewife, he found no role model to guide him toward a simple life. In order to achieve this pattern, he isolates himself from everyone, including himself..