He frees his hands, pulls the noose away, and rises to the surface to begin his escape. The story returns to the present, and Farquhar falls into the creek when the rope around his neck breaks. The soldier is actually a disguised Union scout who has lured Farquhar into a trap, as any civilian caught interfering with the railroads will be hanged.
He then leaves, but doubles back after nightfall to return north the way he came. The soldier suggests that Farquhar might be able to burn the bridge down if he can slip past its guards. Farquhar, a supporter of the Confederacy, learns from him that Union troops have seized the Owl Creek railroad bridge and repaired it. In a flashback, Farquhar and his wife are relaxing at home one evening when a soldier dressed in Confederate gray rides up to the gate. He considers the possibility of jumping off the bridge and swimming to safety if he can free his tied hands, but the soldiers drop him from the bridge before he can act on the idea. Farquhar thinks of his wife and children and is then distracted by a noise that, to him, sounds like an unbearably loud clanging it is actually the ticking of his watch. Six military men and a company of infantrymen are present, guarding the bridge and carrying out the sentence. Peyton Farquhar, a civilian who is also a wealthy planter and slave owner, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Alabama railroad bridge during the American Civil War. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream of consciousness narrative mode. The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
" An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. The San Francisco Examiner, July 13, 1890 ( December 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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