Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Literary Analysis One would not believe that a short story about a man supposedly escaping death would have so much subtext, but this is not the case in Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. Bierce foreshadows the shocking ending of his work several times throughout his story. He uses many different literary techniques to accomplish this. These literary techniques helped to foreshadow the ending of his story. Ambrose Bierce uses foreshadowing as well as other literary techniques in order to create a shock effect.
Bierce foreshadows the shocking ending of his short story in several different ways. The writer uses imagery by talking about how Peyton Fahrquhar is able to impossibly observe things from