The mood created at the beginning of "The Raven" is one of mystery and sadness with undertones of horror. Poe accomplishes this through the Gothic setting, characterization
Answer:
Bierce's methodic writing style that provides detailed quiet, slow, suspenseful manner affects the readers by sudden withdrawn to reality when they have accepted the fact that Peyton Farquhar has escaped. But he is dead already.
Explanation:
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
" is a short story written by Ambrose Bierce. The story is about Peyton Farquhar, who is standing twenty feet above the water with his neck in the noose, at the beginning of the story.
The methodic writing style of Bierce providing a detailed description in a quiet, slow, and suspenseful manner, makes the readers believe that Peyton has actually escaped. But when Bierce slowly unveils the suspense, the readers get to know that he is already dead. This affects readers by hitting them with a sudden reality of what happened to Peyton.
One main reason was because he was such a respectful figure. John Adams would have written it but when the delegates were deciding who should write it, they picked Jefferson because he excelled over Adams in writing.
