Response to War by Gertrude Stein
The theme of home in Gertrude Stein’s piece was always changing. The literal word in the piece they would use to describe home after they came back for a lengthy amount of time was “changed”. Gertrude and Alice during the war were always moving. They first started off in Paris remembering it a certain way. But everyone of their adventures or vacations turned out to be much longer then they expected. Every single time they would come home it wasn’t the same for them. One of the reasons this is the case is because during the war many things change. Stores close, the city is destroyed from bombings and, people are out fighting. Society seems to take a break. But then after the war when they came home it was also different. They saw more people on the streets in Paris after the war then they did before. “An awful lot of people were killed in the war but it seems to me and extraordinary large number of grown men and women have suddenly been born”. In the day and age we live in society is always changing. But a city that is undergoing or went through war, also goes through dramatic changes. So home was always changing in Paris for Gertrude and Alice.