It appears that time isn't Farquhar's ally. He's out of time when the story starts, his watch ticking during the time to his death. The dance, as is commonly said, was up before it started – Farquhar's arrangement to torch the bridge was pre-planned by a Federal scout. The peculiar stream of time all through the narrative just features this point. The storyteller takes us forward and backward between the present and the past. Indeed, it is simply after Farquhar falls through the bridge that we learn his name and what drove him to his execution. This non-linear stream of time mirrors Farquhar's absence of control through the span of occasions. Farquhar's absence of control after some time and the constrained time left in his life are extremely clear in his response to the ticking of his watch. The watch ticks off the seconds left in Farquhar's life like a death chime, a ringer rung to report that somebody has died. As he hears his watch ticking, he knows he can't control the time that is passing. Rather, his brain makes an option reality, one in which he
It appears that time isn't Farquhar's ally. He's out of time when the story starts, his watch ticking during the time to his death. The dance, as is commonly said, was up before it started – Farquhar's arrangement to torch the bridge was pre-planned by a Federal scout. The peculiar stream of time all through the narrative just features this point. The storyteller takes us forward and backward between the present and the past. Indeed, it is simply after Farquhar falls through the bridge that we learn his name and what drove him to his execution. This non-linear stream of time mirrors Farquhar's absence of control through the span of occasions. Farquhar's absence of control after some time and the constrained time left in his life are extremely clear in his response to the ticking of his watch. The watch ticks off the seconds left in Farquhar's life like a death chime, a ringer rung to report that somebody has died. As he hears his watch ticking, he knows he can't control the time that is passing. Rather, his brain makes an option reality, one in which he