An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

An occurrence at owl creek bridge was a very good but confusing story.  It looks ahead into the future and than comes back to the present.  It would have been way more confusing if you had not told us about this, but thankfully you did.  Anyways the story is broken up into different pieces.  The beginning part of the story is Far Car (that is how I pronounce his name) being held captive at the river and about to be hung (Bierce 390-391).  At this point you do not know as to why he is being hung but he is about to be.  The next part of the story is him being back with his wife and family (Bierce 392). You learn a little bit of background information as to what has happened.  He was not accepted into the Southern Army.  He than talks with a soldier and, Far car being the man who wants to help digs out info from the guy as to what he could do.  He learns this and plans to do it (Bierce 392-393).  It than jumps back to Far car eluding the people that were holding him captive.  He dodges all of the bullets and manages to get away from the Northern captors.  The story than goes and puts Far Car returning to his wife and home and just as that happens he dies (Bierce 396).  The reader knows that Far Car died by the rope and he dreamt the whole scenario (Bruccoli)  I was quite confused at this point and it was a very bad way to end a good story.  It is like one of those movies that is so good, but the ending absolutely sucks.

The first thing that I know is that this Far car guy would have been hated by Thoreau because Thoreau did not want slaves.  Far Car was for the South therefore, he must have had some sort of want for slaves.

Bierce, Ambrose. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 387-396. Print.

Bruccoli, Matthew J., and Judith S. Baugman. "Peyton Farquhar." Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2009. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 15 Feb. 12.