Farquhar Analysis

Farquhar's inner conflict while facing a life-and-death situation affects his mental state because during the short story, there is a time occurrence where Farquhar is about to face death by being hanged at the Owl Creek Bride. In his mind at that moment he feels time is slowing down and he starts imagining a whole picture that maybe just maybe the rope will break and he will be able to escape by swimming to shore even though it was a split second before his death but it seems like millions of seconds when something bad is going to happen. His imagination was a foreshadow because he already had thought the whole plan out to escape after being captured by the Union and him being in the South at that time was a given that he was going to be captured
So when he knows he is going to die, Farqhuar's vision of happiness flashed before his eyes by creating a scenario where he escapes from the Union soldiers and makes it back home. However, in that dream, fate didn't allow him to see it through to the end as he couldn't reach the true happiness he sought for, which was percieved in his wife, causing the realization of death to come upon him right as he is about to reach his wife. I think that these visions of a better scenario does occur because before someone dies, they want to see something that can help them reach peace, such as a family member, an item, or even a dream. By focusing on this dream or scenario, the pain of death would just be painless of instant as they're already in a better world before they die. One example envisioning a better scenario before death can be shown through the line of work man LA police. One policeman could be tryin to take down a drug cartel and gets shot. As they're bleeding out, they could envision a dream of where they get healed and make it back home to there family, when really they bleed to death in the battle