Character Analysis: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

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In “After Twenty Years” when “Silky” Bob read the note, he realizes that who he talked to earlier was actually his friend Jimmy he had agreed to meet up with twenty years ago. Even though he was shocked that Jimmy, a police officer and also his friend, would arrest him he did not run off. “Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible.” Shows that Bob did not try escape being arrested. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Peyton Farquhar imagined his escaped after he was about to be hung. “…he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream.” Is a quote from the story that shows that his escape was all apart of his imagination. Moreover, at the end of the story we know that he did die where he was hung and he did not escape like

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