<span>B. Novels have simple, straightforward themes (and few of them).</span>
We can't have hero's without villains/monsters. So I AGREE. Because hero's are only hero's because of the fact of us having monsters. Who would they face? Nothing? Then they wouldn't be hero's. We need bad things /people to have HERO'S to save and help us otherwise if everything was perfect, we wouldn't need hero's.
Hemingway conveys double entendre between Krebs's soldier and civilian lives. The excerpt shows the ambiguity or precisely black and white nature of the lives. Krebs cannot do the things in his civil life that he has done in his military life. The author counts the disadvantages of these opportunities of Krebs's civilian life in the given excerpt. In order to escape from this unwanted reality he must become someone else. So that, he must lie and he must leave his formed identity.