And what Bierce is stating is more of a dream than reality. Thereby showing us Peyton is slowly dying of the hanging that has actually taken place. Not a very likely scenario considering that Bierce purports Peyton to have fallen into a creek. As he enters the water, Bierce tells us that Payton keeps sinking until the light from above is merely a gleam, and states " How distant, how inaccessible" and then continues to sink even further into darkness. The first hint of Peyton's actual fate is introduced as he has apparently fallen from the bridge as the northern soldiers attempt to hang him. That the hanging rope had broken, and he was eventually reunited with his family far from the reaches of the northern soldiers. Within the first few paragraphs, Bierce paints a vivid account of the landscape surrounding the inevitable ending of death by hanging for the main character of Peyton Farquahar, a well-to-do planter from Alabama.īierce then spends several pages trying to convince the reader, quite effectively, that Peyton's hanging may have indeed had a different outcome than expected. This foreshadowing manifests itself in the form. In author Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, the reader is given several hints to the stories dark and inevitable ending.
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