When it comes to the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," the reader learns that Farquhar has died at this point:
D. The last sentence of Part III.
What happens in the story?
- In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," the main character Peyton Farquhar is a Confederacy supporter who ends up hanged, accused of treason against the Union.
- However, readers are tricked by the author into believing that Farquhar was able to escape his execution and return home. It is all a hallucination that the character had during the seconds it took for him to die.
- That is only clearly revealed in the last sentence of Part III, which is the following: "Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge."
With the information above in mind, we can choose option D as the correct answer.
The missing options for this question are the following:
A. the end of Part I
B. the end of Part II
C. the first sentence of Part III
D. the last sentence of Part III
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