across the bridge

Across the Bridge, and There is Modernism
−−Analysis of the modernistic writing techniques in Across The Bridge

Across The Bridge, a short story written by Graham Greene deals with a cruel rich old man who exerts tremendous efforts to immigrate into America where his illusive intangible paradise is waving both hands to him at the other end of the bridge. As a model essay, it is widely hailed by contemporary critics mainly due to the modernistic writing techniques employed by Graham Greene.
The limited first-person point of view is one of its most obvious features. On the one hand, Greene adopts the narrator “I” rather than the conventional omniscient narrator, on the other hand this first-person perspective differs greatly from the honest reliable ‘I” in earlier novels like The Great Gatsby. In t...