In the third part of the story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, the point of view is of Peyton Farquhar, but it is in the third person. This story is put into this view just a few seconds before he dies. This particular point of view in this part of the story is appropriate because it gives the reader an inside view, if you will, to the characters death. If it was coming out of one of the guards, or the executioner's point of view we wouldn't get the same gist of the story. By doing it out of the main character's point of view, we are able to get the full feeling of what the character goes through.
Ambrose Bierce tries to make us feel sympathy for the Confederate army. Since the view is found out of a Confederate soldier, we are more inclined to feel his pain more, and in turn, have sympathy for him.
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two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff." (Page 468)
"How coldly and pitilessly-with......
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