what did the old man mean when he said "i cannot think of what will become of others" in the old man at the bridge
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An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. There was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts, trucks, and men, women and children were crossing it. The mule-drawn carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers helping push against the spokes of the wheels. The trucks ground up and away heading out of it all and the peasants plodded along in the ankle deep dust. But the old man sat there without moving. He was too tired to go any farther.
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"The Old Man at the Bridge" is one of Hemingway's stories in which he deliberately leaves out most exposition in order to focus on the here and now. The reader has to make all kinds of assumptions and deductions based on what the author actually tells him; but this requirement tends to draw the reader into the setting and make it more vivid. In this story Hemingway is describing an incident that occurs