The Old Man At the Bridge, a short story by Earnest Hemingway . The story is mainly centered around an old man,who is left abandoned,during the Spanish Civil War . His life gets affected adversely as a result of the political feud between the opposing parties. The feud between the two strong oppositions inadvertently ends up affecting the lives of people who have no role in this game of blood and ill wit . In lieu of the current political scenario , only innocent lives are upturned for a selfish an cruel cause.