An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Themes and Characters
Bierce uses a complex narrative structure to advance the theme of time in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." He distorts the reader's sense of time by revealing at the end of the story that Farquhar imagined his escape in the few seconds before he died, even though the escape takes up a great portion of the narrative. Be doing so, Bierce addresses the ways time can be portrayed and manipulated in fiction, a medium in which the reader must rely on the author to represent or create reality. Bierce also stresses that time is subjective and phenomenal, especially during times of mental or...
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