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This gives rise to feelings of betrayal within him; he could have died at war but nobody acknowledges him. As his community is not interested in real war-time stories, Krebs begins to avoid mingling with people. Owing to his noncompliance with the societal rule that he seek employment and marry, society doesn’t accept him (Temper).
The second element contributing greatly to conflict within the tale is Krebs’ family. Krebs ceases to feel a sense of belongingness at home. His mother is unable to grasp the fact that he has endured anguish and struggle during the war. She attempts at persuading Krebs to seek employment like other men. Krebs doesn’t have faith in God any longer. He grapples with attempting to reconcile his personal war-connected feelings and his community’s perceptions of the war. "Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie, and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told" (Hemingway, 170). Both Hemingway (who fought in the First World War) and Krebs are coerced into telling lies with regard to their war-time experience simply so others would hear them out. Hemingway became accustomed to telling lies in this regard, and ultimately became disgusted by it: his deceit in sensationalizing the actual dullness of war kept eating at his conscience (Meyers).
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Thus, they felt alienated, or lost, from society. A similar theme of alienation from society is found in the Andre Dubus short story entitled the Fat Girl. This story's alienation from society comes from being fat. In a world where skinny is everywhere, people who do not meet this prototype are ostracized, or feel lost from their community. Interestingly enough, the story opens with "Her name was Louise." (Dubus, p.
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