In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," how is our perspective of this event manipulated by the contracting and expanding of time and through the...

When Peyton Farquhar is
awaiting the fall that will snap his neck in the noose, his perception of time changes, and,
therefore, ours seem to as well since it is his thoughts and feelings that the narrator
relates.  At the end of Part I, Farquhar feels that the time in between the ticks of the second
hand on his watch are getting longer and longer, and the sound the hand makes gets louder and
louder.  His perception of time slows down so much, and then thein Part II distracts us from
what's happening in the present with Farquhar, so that when we get to Part III, we don't
necessarily realize that the events being narrated are happening in his imagination. 

Details like the way he can see the dew glistening on each flower petal or the buzzing
of an insect's wings alert us to the fact that something odd is going on, but other more factual
details like the rope burn and swelling around Farquhar's neck seem realistic enough that
readers might assume what's happening is real.  Our perspective is manipulated by details like
these that leave us in some doubt as to what, exactly, is happening to Farquhar in these
moments; because his sense of reality is skewed, ours is too.