Owl Creek Bridge Sparknotes

Ambrose Bierce's short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is beautifully explained and exaggerated upon by William Conlogue in his article Beating the Bounds with Ambrose Bierce, or Learning to Read without Getting Shot. Conlogue writes about Bierce's writing style and he gives information on the main character of the story Peyton Farquhar. Conlogue recounts the symbolism used in the short story and describes how Farquhar is actually hallucinating the seconds that he is dying, “Everything in Farquhar's dream originates in the split second point of his death.”(Conlogue). Conlogue also tells us about Bierce’s map making experience being used to create the order of the story. Bierce goes from speaking about the man being sentenced to death,