"An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" contains two themes
regarding time and reality. In all, these themes advance Bierce's message that war is
unnatural.
liked to have a twist at the end of his stories.
He also likes to write about the Civil War. When the reader embraces The Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge, he gets the best of both from Bierce. Serving as a topographical officer, Bierce
received a serious head wound in battle in 1864. From this experience, Bierce understood the
traumatic injury and how a life could be lost in the blink of an eye.
The
story is divided into three parts
First part-
The story begins with a group of silent figures standing on a railroad bridge. The time is the
Civil War. A man dressed in Civilian clothes is about to be hanged. As the man waits the time
of his execution, he imagines that he could escape and find his way home to his wife and
children.
Second part - The man is Peyton
Farquhar, a wealthy slave owner. ...
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