Alma’s Amusingly and Artistically Articulated Short Story Blog

 What examples of foreshadowing do you see in Bierce’s writing in this story? Do they make the knots of the story tie together in the end? 

“Suppose a man—a civilian and student of hanging—should  elude the picket post and perhaps get the better of the sentinel,” said Fahrquhar, smiling, “what could he accomplish?” The soldier re ected. “I was there a month ago,” he replied. “I observed that the ood of last winter had lodged a great quantity of driftwood against the wooden pier at this end of the bridge. It is now dry and would burn like tow.”              - “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ( Chapter II)           After finishing the story, I came back to look at this passage for clues as I found it interesting. It begins with Fahrquhar  questioning the solider in gray about what a civilian could do in order to cause a disturbance to the yanks. The soldier answers Fahrquhar very plainly, and seems to choose the information he lets him in on carefully, maybe the soldier did this purposely?            The soldier tells Fahrquhar that if someone were to tamper with anything to do with the Yank’s railroad, bridges, tunnels,