How does the Owl Creek Bridge as a liminal space (a threshold between two sides)? What is significant about Farquhar’s transformation as he crosses through the space? Use evidence from the text in your answer.

Bierce uses the literary technique of stream of consciousness before it became a common part of modernist literature. How does Bierce use of stream of consciousness in the story? How does it affect the story?

Bierce’s story is told out of order (not in chronological order). How does this structure lend itself to the theme of the Perception of Reality? Give evidence from the text.