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In Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
In the short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, written by Ambrose Bierce there was a man named Peyton Farquhara and the short story was biased on the day of his death. The author says that "gentlemen are not excluded" from a hanging, and this hints that he believes Peyton Farquhar is a gentleman (Bierce 552). But whether he received a just punishment wasn't said directly. Peyton must have disobeyed the law because he was getting prepared to be hanged. However, his dream began right as he begins to fall. He then dreams the string attached to his neck breaks, and he falls into the stream. When his life is supposedly meant to flash before his eyes, he sees what he hoped would happen instead. So he definitely has a strong imagination,
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