n his short stories or as little as he pleases. So thehero in "An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge" is a spy who is about to be hanged. In thisshort story many people take for granted the reason he is being hanged and what hisbeliefs are. Bierce provides the minimum of character description:Peyton Farquhar was a well-to-do planter of an old and highly respectedAlabama family. Being a slave owner and like other slave owners apolitician, he was naturally an orginal secessionist and ardently devoted tothe Southern cause. Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it isunnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with thegallant army... (solomom 184).Who this man is makes very little difference in the story what really matters is how hereacts to war. This is why Bierce doesn't take much time out of his story to tell who eachcharacter is.In "An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge" Bierce uses many examples offlashbacks. He uses flashbacks because many soldies in was suffer from flashbacks. Inthe flashbacks they see things that have happened to them in the war or things that theyhave seen happen to people in the war. The main purpose of the flashbacks is to make anintensification of personal experience. Solomon 185). An example of a flashback in"The Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge" is when Farquhar broke his neck.Vainly he sought by tracing life backward in memory, to reproduce themoment of his sin, scenes and incidents came crowding tumultuously into his mind, one picture effacing another, or commingling with it in confussion and obscurity, but nowhere ciuld he catch a glimpse of what hesought. (Bierce 17).Bierce's short story "The Death of Haplin Frayser" is about is about what is nowcalled the Oedipus Complex. The main character in this story is Haplin Frayser. Thisstory is all about trying to figure out where exactly Frayser is now that he is dead. Aquote that sums up this entire story is:For by death is wrou...
