Bitter Bierce

The story of “an occurrence at owl creek bridge” is very cynical in the fact that all throughout the story you think that the man will get away. That he will actually escape and be with his family again and survive but right at the very end he is just hanging off the bridge dead. Bierce took the readers emotional and toyed with them all throughout the story. Telling the reader things to make them think he is going to die but yet live at the same time. He made it seem like time was standing still in a couple of parts of the story. A good example is when Farquhar had the flashback of giving the solider some water and talking to him. Bierce was able to take a matter of seconds and turn it into what seemed like a life time for Farquhar.