Peyton Farquhar

Briefly discuss the role played by the natural world—extreme cold, snow and ice, instinct, the “survival of the fittest,” etc.—in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”

ASSIGNMENT Briefly discuss Bierce’s portrayal of the subjectivity of Peyton Farquhar in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”: focus on how Bierce describes his main character’s mental state, his sensory awareness, his sense of the passage of time, etc. Is it “realistic,” and if so, in what sense? Discuss Howells’s “Editha” as an anti-war story. […]

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