In this story the civil war serves as a backdrop; bierce's main intent is to examine the psychology of someone in a life-or-death situation. what does this story imply about human psychology in the face of death?

Ambrose Bierce implies several things about the psychology of the human mind in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". One is that the mind essentially creates its own reality, especially in a moment of great stress. Nothing that Peyton thinks is happening actually is. Although the entire episode Peyton imagines takes place in a fraction of a second, in his mind he travels quite far after the miraculous breaking of the hangman's noose. Even though ...