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Harold's mother, the grandmother, and Bartleby are selfish   In Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," Harold's mother shows selfishness in that she refuses to understand his changing behavior. Her son, Harold Krebs, is a young man who is returning hom ....

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.... his mother how the war affected him. He betrays symptoms of his discontent with his behavior hoping that she will make some kind of logical relation. This drastic change in his behavior does not spark a question of doubt in his mother's mind. The connection between his recent return home and his changing behavior is not made. Harold isolates himself from his family and his community. He does not "want any consequences." The psychological damage he receives from the war causes him to act cold and emotionless. Harold's mother asks him, "Don't you love your mother," and he replies, "no." His mothers love for him is selfish because sh ....