Point of view in all types of stories convey the author’s attitude, his way of showing the reader what he wants us to think, what he wants us to know. Peyton Farqhar, the main character in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, distorts the story, actually beginning the narration after his catch and in the last phase of his execution; this warp of time and settings actually develops the outcome of the story.
“It is now dry and would burn like tow.” As Peyton flashes back to his time before his “execution,” time is changed, changed to where the reader does not know if he is alive or dead, hallucinating or truly there. Sitting on his front porch, serving a charitable glass