Disillusioned after having been in World War I, Harold
Krebbs returns to his Kansas home. There he finds that people want to hear war stories,
but they do not want the truth. Similarly, Krebbs reflects, girls are too complicated;
he would like to have a girl but "he did not want to have to spend a long time getting
her." Nor does he want the lies, the "intrigue and politics" involved in dating. "It
wasn't worth it."
Having been in a war in which all the
frivolities are non-essential, and having observed the savagery of war, Krebbs longs for
his life to be simple and authentic. All the artifices of society are not "worth the
trouble" for Krebbs. Besides, he cannot relate to the girls who are living in a world
much different from the one in which he has lived. Contenting himself with just looking
at them, Krebbs tries to keep his life simple as "things were getting good
again."
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