• Hemingway emphasized realistic-sounding dialogue and at times made it the core of his stories, as is the case with “The Old Man at the Bridge.”
  • Text № 4 old man at the bridge. By E.Hemingway (1899-1961). An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road.
  • The narrator who is a soldier, sees an old man at a pontoon bridge near the Ebro river. People are crossing the bridge to escape from the war zone.
  • Summary/Critical Analysis of the Story Old Man at the Bridge by Ernest Hemingway. ... Analyze the use of Symbols in the story Old Man at the Bridge.
  • He is so exhausted as he has just walked 12 kms from his hometown that he has to halt at the bridge. ... The old man encounters the soldier at the bridge.
  • This feeling he has portrayed most vividly in “The Old Man at the Bridge,” a sensitive story about refugees ... The officer is constantly looking across the bridge.
  • Old Man at the Bridge. ... It was my business to cross the bridge, explore the bridgehead beyond and find out to what point the enemy had advanced.
  • Old Man at the Bridge. ... It was my business to cross the bridge, explore bridgehead beyond and find out to what point the enemy had advanced.
  • Old Man at the Bridge. ... The mule-drawn carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers helping push against the spokes of the wheels.