The Disappearance of Krebs: Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" as a Critique of Whiteness.

This article analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" as a critique of Whiteness, emphasizing how the narrative engages with race, white masculinity, and white supremacy in post–World War I America. It argues that while previous scholarship has focused on the story's themes of postwar disillusionment and masculinity, it has largely overlooked the racialized construction of masculinity and the submerged presence of racial violence and African American contributions, particularly through the story's settings in Oklahoma and Kansas and references to baseball. The article highlights how Hemingway's depiction of Krebs's alienation reflects the pressures of performing normative white masculinity, reinforced by white womanhood and national myths that obscure racial injustice. Ultimately, Krebs's ambiguous rejection of these expectations and his turn toward his sister's inclusive, alternative engagement with baseball suggest a tentative possibility for reimagining white masculinity beyond dominant racial narratives.