An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge By: Ambrose Bierce
§ Farquhar is tricked by a soldier from the North § Is to be hanged § As Farquhar is hanging there he has a dream that he escapes down the creek § After he swims to safety he walks wearily to his house § As he walks up to the house he feels a blow on the head § What has happened?
§ Peyton Farquhar = well-to-do planter from Alabama, he was a secessionist and would have done anything for the South, had the heart of a soldier but knew nothing about being one § Farquhar’s wife § The Federal = posed as a soldier of the South but was really a soldier of the North
Omniscient/Objective § Last line page 430 § He wants to show the escape was fantasy § Pages 424 and 425 – the beginning of the story is both types of points of view § They both set the scene and introduces the main character § Part II § Objective third person because it wants to portray Farquhar as eager to serve the Southern cause but naïve about the realities of war
Third-person limited § Page 429, column I § The narrator sees hears and feels what Farquhar feels, while he is in the water § Shows firing squad in a panicked way § Is it strange someone would be thinking so coherently? § End of page 425 § Allows the reader to become personalized with Farquhar
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