A war causes many unforgivable effects on people and especially on those who take action in it, the soldiers. Harold Krebs as a very young soldier saw and experienced many of those impossible to forget experiences. Some might have been witnessed by second hand while other where horrifyingly perceived by first hand. These experiences caused mentally effects on Krebs. Harold doesn’t have any feeling for life and doesn’t feel love for anything. He wonders life and sees himself not fitting with his childhood life; family, town, etc. The speaker describes how Krebs tries to escape the thoughts of his experiences at war:

…he was sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down to the library to get a book, eating lunch at home, reading on the front porch until he became bored and then walking down through the town to spend the hottest hours of the day in the cool dark of the pool room.

  The war has made Krebs a different person; his views of life have changed. He now thinks differently than before going to war because when he went to the war he was a religious juvenile child. “Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas” meaning that he was of religious beliefs which might indicate that he saw also though of the world and life as four years old kid, but now he sees it as a rainbow; false hope. That’s why it have that effect on Krebs because when people are young and religious they think of life as a box full of happiness causing they to imagine war something relevant to it. When a child is told to do a grow up’s job the child will surely not be capable of handling it and the tormented child will be hunted by this.