The opening of section 2 from "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge introduces the character of Peyton Farquhar.
It explains the reader that Farquhar was a planter and politician from a respected Alabama family. He was a slave owner, a secessionist and a friend to the Southern cause. The excerpt also explains that Farquhar did not do the military service nor did he fight the campaigns that endend with the fall of Corinth.
This passage of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" A. introduces the reader to the man being executed, Farquhar. Even more, it introduces Farquhar, but it doesn't say he is going to be executed or he's trying to escape or anything, it just introduces him.
