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Answer : Set during the Spanish Civil War, The Old Man at the Bridge is a short story about how war destroys life. The main character, a nameless scout, converses with an old man on a bridge about the man's home and fears. Above all, the old man is worried about his animals, whom he was forced to abandon in order to save himself. He knows that his former life is now lost, and he wonders whether it is worth the effort to start over.

“The Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway is the tragedy of war. The author's intention is to illustrate the way wars disrupt the lives of innocent people who are caught up in the middle, but also the way it frustrates those who cannot do anything about it.

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