Question

character sketch old man from the lesson old man at the bridge

Answer 1

Answer:

The old man is the second character in the short story, who is presented from the narrator’s perspective. According to his outer characterization, he comes from a town called San Carlos , he is “seventy-six years old” , he has no family, and he used to take care of animals.

His physical portrait is conveyed on several occasions, and helps suggest the idea of helplessness: “An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road.” ; “...I looked at his black dusty clothes and his gray dusty face and his steel rimmed spectacles…”