Farquhar’s view of escaping. Bierce offers to show the incredible fantasy that passes through the mind of a man as he dies. The setting for An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge is northern Alabama during the Civil War. Peyton Farquhar is said to be a planter who is left behind by the Confederate Army due to circumstances "...of an imperious nature," but he longs for the "release of his energies, the larger life of …showed first 75 words of 372 total…

…showed last 75 words of 372 total…to undo himself from the ropes and swim to shore that we actually root for him to stay alive. He had great motivation. When he does make it to shore and is about to see his wife, at the end of the story, we then realize that it wasn’t reality. If the owl remains a symbol of mysterious knowledge, perhaps it is a happy coincidence that the hero of this story reveals a hi