Narrator and point of view

The short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce is a third-person narration told from the perspective of a limited-knowledge-narrator. There is no sign the narrator is involved in the story. Everything is told as if he were observing the events from a safe distance.

The anonymous narrator has limited knowledge of what is happening, as he follows Farquhar and adopts his point of view:

“"If I could free my hands," he thought, "I might throw off the noose and spring into the stream. By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home. My home, thank God, is as yet outside their lines; my wife and little ones are still beyond the invader's farthest advance."”

Still, th...