![]() The resulting drama-Farquhar seemingly escaping his Union captors in an effort to return to his home-can be viewed as an embodiment of the South’s ultimately futile struggle. ![]() Bierce doesn’t delve deeply into the moral implications of Farquhar’s position but makes it clear that such a position automatically places him in the heart of the conflict, and that such a position is morally untenable. He’s a local, for starters, and a slave owner as well. Though it largely focuses on Farquhar’s experience of his own death, that death comes about as a direct result of his participation in the Confederate cause. The story takes place in the Deep South-Alabama-at some indeterminate point in the middle of the Civil War. ![]()
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