Owl Creek Ambrose Bierce's "An Book Review

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Ambrose Bierce is not a preacher, and he does not preach through his stories. There are no good or evil men in this tale, and readers hoping for a moral, or even a strong sense of moralism, should stop at the noose in the third sentence, for this is all the moral Bierce will give you explicitly. What is, is, this story seems to say emphatically, and ironic, strange, or contrary that might be, there's just no changing this simple fact of life.

There's also no changing the fact that some of this tale is somewhat systematic in its exposition, with key information coming late in several passages as a revelation that turns the direction of the story in a near reversal each time. But through it all, Bierce's even tone and calm, lucid prose resists any temptation towards cliches of sensationalism, plodding directly and singularly on to his story's end. Farquhar thinks many ting while standing on that bridge, and when his feet have left the solidness of the wood and rails, but none of them really prepare either he or the reader for the objective truth.

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By the end of the story it is apparent that this is the only thing that really matters, explaining Bierce's subtle tone.

The end of this tale is as surprising as any other part of it. Without the final sentence, the entire story would simply be another lamentation of a man dying, and of a man or men betrayed (regardless of the reader's perspective on the particular events at hand). With it, Ambrose Bierce has crafted a powerful piece of literature that reflects many of our less noble traits back. This reader knows something has value if he is humbled, and I gravely bow to "An Occurrence at Owl….....

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