Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. they all wore sweaters and shirt waists with round dutch collars. it was a pattern. he liked to look at them from the front porch as they walked on the other side of the street. he liked to watch them walking under the shade of the trees. he liked the round dutch collars above their sweaters. he liked their silk stockings and flat shoes. he liked their bobbed hair and the way they walked. the author’s short, descriptive sentences reflect krebs’s thought process and his feelings about the girls. illustrate the anger that krebs feels toward the people in his town. express the shame that krebs feels for lying to the girls. demonstrate krebs’s hopes and dreams for the future.

reflect Krebs’s thought process and his feelings about the girls.

The excerpt shows Kreb's thoughts about the girls. He starts by reflecting how things have not changed but have changed. He details the changes in the girls since they've now grown up, and he talks about their clothing. His actions when watching the girls shows that he sees them from a dsitance and doesn't get involved with them. The passage does not reveal anything about shame, hopes, dreams, or anger so these options are all incorrect.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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