What Is The Setting Of An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a suspenseful story that keeps you on the edge of your seat due to its plot, its imagery, and stream of consciousness. Bierce writes many descriptive phrases to create an atmosphere of constant motion and causes your adrenaline to rush with many of the scenes in the story. In many of the scenes in the story we can find allusion to death. We also become engaged in the story by wanting the prisoner to escape and make it back home. The setting of the story is in Northern Alabama on a railroad bridge during the civil war. The main character is not known at the beginning of the story therefore, we are not interested in this character or his predicament. It is not until later in the story that we find out