An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | The Portrayal of a Character's Inner Psychology
In the following essay, she sees "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "as an early example of the portrayal of a character's inner psychology in fiction.
Ambrose Bierce may very well have been a man out of time. He was a cynical journalist writing at a time when social thought was dominated by optimism. He was the writer who introduced psychological studies in fiction into an American literary scene dominated by realism, naturalism, and regionalism. He was uncompromising in his refusal to bend to the requests of his publishers. Some people have seen his flight to Mexico in 1913 as his deliberate escape from living in that wrong time period. After finishing the preparation of his twelve-volume Collected Works, Bierce gave up writing...
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