Hemingway - Soldier's Home Extra Credit

I have finally made my way back home after my two plus years of wanderings. I often wondered what my family was up to at any given time and a pain in my stomach seemed too much to handle at times when I felt nearly overcome with loneliness for them. But, here I am back home, and now I know. Somehow I feel a stranger, like a new neighbor or a misfit looking into the fishbowl of my old life. I long for sameness and yet at the same time I struggle to reinsert myself into the life I left. I want so badly to run up to my folks and tell them their child missed them but I don’t know if they still cherish me. I am held back by my own insecurity and fear. Do they want me to be a part of their lives? Have they moved on down a path which I cannot follow on? The change is the long separation and lack of sureness that I still belong or if I even want to belong. Krebs’ experiences separated him emotionally from his family because they did not experience the things that he did therefore he senses a lack of a common bond.