Comparing Loss of Self in Soldiers Home, Pauls Case, and Bartleby Essa

Loss of Self in Hemingways Soldiers Home, Cathers Pauls Case, and Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener Hemingways Soldiers Home, Cathers Pauls Case, and Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener all sacrifice a loss of self. These stories prove that there is a fine personal line of credit between finding ones self and losing ones self. I believe this loss bottom occur at any age or station of life. This inclination is seen in each storys main character. Hemingways Soldiers Home depicts a young piece in his early twenties after his return from World state of war I. The young man, Krebs, has arrived home too late. Thus, he doesnt receive the adulation of the townsfolk as the others did. This first loss was the beginning of a long private journey for Krebs. His unwillingness, then inability, to discuss his part in the war with others flat had an effect on Krebs. He was unable to get some rag for of closure, something which he direly needed. Due to the extravagant stories foretold by o thers, Krebs was forced to lie in order to fit in. These lies bothered Krebs. They not only went against him morally, but they in any case started to deteriorate his feelings about the war A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told. All the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them....now unconnected their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves (224). Earl Rovit explains this even further stating, if he cant trust in truth of these experiences, he will then pull in lost everything (255). These feelings that Krebs has are not unfamiliar. This situation is seen in a handful of other stories of the times, but Hemingways story delineates the desperate inc... ... 189-194. Cather, Willa. Pauls Case.The American Short Story. wad II. Ed. Calvin Skaggs. New York Dell, 1980160-180. Decker, Timothy. The Mechanization of a Scrivener. Bartleby the Scrivener by Her man Melville. URL http//www.en.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/bartleby/decker.html Hemingway, Ernest. Soldiers Home. The American Short Story. sight I. Ed. Calvin Skaggs. New York Dell, 1977 224-231. Hyzack,Greg. The Mentally Disturbed Scrivener. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. URL http//www.en.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/bartleby/hyzakbart.html Melville, Herman. Bartleby the Scrivener. The Story and Its Writer. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston St. Martins, 1995 513-539. Rovit, Earl. On Ernest Hemingway and Soldiers Home. The American Short Story. Volume I. Ed. Calvin Skaggs. New York Dell, 1977 251-255.