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... Ambrose Bierce seems to be a “master magician” when it comes to fooling people who read his story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. ...
“A man stood upon a railroad bridge…the man’s…wrists bound with a cord. ... The story begins to unravel into a tale about a man who plans on burning a bridge down to try and support the South after learning from a soldier that the bridge was not well protected. ... First off, it helps the read understand more about who Peyton Farquhar is, but more importantly, it is distracting the reader from what is really going on in the story. ... Back into reality where the story seems to pick up in the third section, Peyton Farquhar is falling from the bridge where he, “…lost consciousness and was as one already dead,” suggesting that he was hung dead.
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The magic show has just begun and Bierce is about to send the reader into a world of illusion. As Peyton is hung, the rope is said to snap and he falls into the water beneath the Owl Creek Bridge. ... the man in the water saw the eyes of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He observed that it was a grey eye…” As Peyton surfaces the water, he obtains super human qualities for he was able to look at such a great distance and view the color of another person’s eye.
Approximate Word count = 1116
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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