In three to five sentences, explain how Ambrose Bierce's use of foreshadowing or flashback influence "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

This
is perhaps Bierce's most well known Civil
War story, in part because because of a "Twilight
Zone" production of it in
the late 1950s or early 1960s, and it has remained popular for
its surprising
ending.

As your question indicates, Bierce uses several

instances ofbut so skilfully directs the reader's expectations throughout the story that
we can
only understand the elements of foreshadowing in hindsight.

For example, when
we are introduced to Peyton Farquhar, he is in the
last few minutes of his life as he waits for
the support to be kicked out
from under his feet so that the hanging can take place.  The first
element of
foreshadowing occurs here when Farquhar imagines freeing himself from he
rope,
falling into the river, and making his way home.  The reader, of
course, puts this down to
wishful thinking.

As Bierce
jumps to the recent past in which Farquhar, at
his home, has a conversation
about the bridge and the Federal troops with a Conferderate soldier
(who
turns...