Answer the following questions with reference to Ernest Hemingway's short story, ' Old Man At The Bridge' .
1. Explain why the old man finally resigns to his fate
2. Describe briefly the character of the old man in the story.
3. How does the story highlight the theme of destruction caused by war?
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1) The man is resigned to his fate because he is old and tired. The war has rendered him homeless and hapless and has wiped out everything. ... The old man's fate is symbolic of the lives of so many ordinary people who have suffered during the war. He is in despair as he has not taken care of his animals
2) The old man, the story's central character, has fled his hometown to escape the encroaching violence of the Spanish Civil War. Throughout the story, he is sitting by the side of the road, exhausted from attempting to travel to safety and feeling that he can no longer go on.
3) The old man constantly mentions the symbolic death when he says that he's tired. Thus Hemingway subtly criticizes war and makes us realize that the least destruction that war can cause is destruction of physical property. But the maximum destruction is where people lose their hope as in the situation with the old man.