In "An occurrence at Owl creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce there is a man named Payten Farquhar who's about to get hanged. But right before his execution he faints and falls into a deep dream that foreshadows many events that show his outcome. The event that Payten Farquhar was experiencing are fantasy and realistic like. Ambrose Bierce showed enough forshadowing that Payten was just in a dream.
The author gave a good example of a dream like situation when the rope on Payten Farquhar was hanging from broke, also the noose on his neck loosened up. the reason why this seems dream like is because almost all the soldiers are careful and will check the rope for any flaws. There are also no possible way the noose will loosen up underwater especially when the rope is made out of hemp because hemp has the tendency to act like a sponge, soak up all the water and swell up, therefore the noose on his neck will get tighter.
Another example of how the story expressed a dream like event was when Payten Farquhar saw a company of men in silhouette cut outs, and the soldiers eye shining gray shot at Payten Farquhar and missed. Now this is a good dream like situtation that the author wrote because you cannot see people in silhouette and only see their eye also another reasn this is a dream like event is that it is said that gray eyes were the keenest, and all the famous marksmen had them. One more awkward event that Payten Farquhar exprienced was when he was walking down the road and noticed the trees were staright in a pattern, and the road in the woods was straught and wide as a city street. This event tells you that Farquhar is dreaming because it is impossible to have a straight and wide in road in the woods that had to be man made but wasn't with the trees lined up exactly.
Through the context of the book there was enought foreshadowing. With all the evidence of Payten with the rope breaking, the noose loosening up, expert riflemen missing a clear shots of him, and the ways the trees in the forest lined up to a horizontal fashion, the suprise ending seems pretty predictable.
