Peyton
Farquhar dies beneath the Owl Creek Bridge. He was captured and hanged for trying to sabotage
and destroy the bridge so that that the Union army could not use it.
The
story is great, and I love teaching it because the ending of it makes my students so mad. The
majority of the story takes place between the moment when Peyton is falling down with the rope
around his neck, and the moment that he dies. It's probably fractions of seconds. But to
Peyton's mind, that is an eternity. He imagines the rope breaking and himself making a
wonderful escape away from his Union captors. He even makes his way to his home and is hoping
to see his wife. But before his imagination can put him inside of his home . . . the rope snaps
taught and kills Peyton beneath the Owl Creek Bridge.
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