″The old man at the bridge″
- Type:   Research Paper  • Category:  English Literature  • Citation format:   MLA  •  Words: 1120
The story of the ‘’old man at the bridge ‘’ was inspired by Ernest Hemingway about the Spanish world war in the 1930s. The story was mainly composed as a news dispatch from the Amposta Bridge over the Ebro River on Easter Sunday as the fascist were to overrun the region (Zaidi, 104). An old man with spectacles sits at the looking exhausted by the side of the river near the