Time: The story takes place after World War I, a few years after he was discharged from the military.(Some years past 1919)
- " He enlisted in the marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division retuned form the Rhine in the summer of 1919."(Hemingway, Soldier's Home)
Place: It takes place in his house, somewhere in Oklahoma.
- "By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over." (Hemingway, Soldier's Home)
Social Environment: The motifs of his social environment, which is you should be dating girls and having a "good time" and that young men should striving to achieve goals to set them up for a good future, are contradicted by Krebs.
- He realizes that you don't need women in your life.
- He also doesn't have any goals that he wants to achieve.
- "You're father is worried, too. He thinks you have lost your ambition, that you haven't gotten a definite aim in life. Charley Simmons, who is just your age, has a good job and is going to be married."(Hemingway, Soldier's Home) - THis is their idea of what a man his age should be doing and what the other people in the Environment are doing.