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While analyzing scene one, the first part of the story, it introduces a man about thirty five years of age standing on a bridge in northern Alabama. He had his hands behind him tied. He was standing in that bridge about to be hung. Everything was ready for the lynching they were only waiting for “a signal from the former the latter would step aside, the plank would tilt and the condemned man go down between two ties” (p 32).  His face was not cover nor his eyes not were bandaged, so he was clearly aware and could see what was happening around him, so he closed his eyes in order to focus and “fix his last thoughts on his wife and children” (p 32). Now, Farquhar was thinking of his family. Something that before he might have not thought about, like if something happened to him what was his wife and children were going to do without him. Having his thoughts on his family, a really loud noise on the background  distracted him from his thoughts, he wondered what it was, the sound was similar to a blacksmith’s hammer hitting on to the anvil. Every time he heard that noise he was became more and more impatience and he did not know why. The silence grew longer which this allowed the noise to be heard more clearly and louder to his ears. The noise was hurting his ears already of how loud it was, but in reality what he was really hearing “was the ticking of his watch” (p 33). That noise that the book says was the ticking of his watch was because he didn’t have any more time left. He was living his last moments and he was running out of time. He opened his eyes and faced the reality; he was still in the bridge waiting for the signal to be hung. Bierce gives a lot of details that leaves a clear picture of the scene, and I think this is very important so we, all the readers, could understand the thoughts of Farquhar and what happens in the next scenes. I think this scene is very important for the whole story because it is where the author sets the story. He has to plot the scenario in a really good way, so the readers can have a better understanding of the story and how it develops.