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Monster Essays - Bierce
Bierce
Serving as a union soldier in the Civil War, Bierce
learned of war' s savageness, and how stupid and degrading
it was. His writing style can be contributed to his war
time experiences. His works are blunt, brutally realistic,
and his attacks on others in the San Francisco Examiner,
(American Authors 1600-1900 76) were nowhere near
politically correct. Bierce's short stories "often hinge on
an ironic surprising conclusion" (Contemporary Authors 48),
as in one of his better known works "An Occurrence At Owl
Creek Bridge", were the sudden death of a Confederate spy
catches us by surprise. A forerunner of the realist
movement, Ambrose Bierc....
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