Good question!
It is a double
entendre, that is, it has a double meaning.
By stating the
phrase "Soldier's Home", Hemingway is saying that:
a) He
will be talking about the home of the soldier.
b) He will
be talking about the fact that the soldier is back.
The
story talks about both things: The soldier is home, and we get to see the dynamics of
the household once he gets there.
We know that, in the
story, the soldier IS at his house but he is not "at home" as nobody understands the
situation from which he has just surfaced from. Everyone evades him, and they refuse to
understand him.
Hence, it is an ironic title to call it
that way because the soldier is neither at home nor does he really have a home where he
can feel at ease to understand his circumstances. One more instance of Hemingway's
genius!
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