A Spectrum of Grey Black means bad and white means good. This age-old saying stems from the belief that the struggle between good and bad contains no middle ground. Ambrose Bierce challenges this notion in his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek. In addition, the story addresses the nature of the soldiers and their likeliness to stone statues. Both color and statues are tenors of metaphors that Bierce uses to convey his view that ordinary people fight both sides of the war, and it changes them for the worse. Using grey as a middle ground, Bierce uses color to convey his view that people are neither good nor bad inherently. Both the soldiers and Fahrquhar have grey eyes, but Fahrquhar’s are darker. Eyes are windows to the
