Personally, I really enjoyed reading this short story. It definitely caught my attention from the beginning because I started getting excited when it said that he was reluctant to break free. In this short story, it gives so much detail about how things uused to be done. For example, in today's generation we no longer hang people. I also found it interesting when Bierce included in this story what fire arms were like back then. He included in his story how he could time a bullet and try to dodge it because the gun smoke would let him know when the bullet was released. I know that this was all a hopeful wish in Farquhar's mind but it helpfully relates to what times were like back then.
By having an understanding of Ambrosse Bierce and the time this story was written helps me understand greater detail of it. What really stuck out to me was during Farquhar's fascinated escape, he points out in one sentence that he had finally reached the banks of the south and was now "free". This shows that not only did he talk in this story about old weapons that were used or that hanging men was on going but that the Civil War was still fresh and he chose to write a story that included the south and north.
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I really like how you connected this story with Bierce's life in a way that made me think more into the detail of his life history. When you said, "What really stuck out to me was during Farquhar's fascinated escape, he points out in one sentence that he had finally reached the banks of the south and was now "free"." That showed me how the author was trying to tie his desire of freedom into the story not only from escaping from the the rope, but also from the Civil War. What I also liked about what you said was that you compared our times to the earlier years in which this story was written. For example, when you stated how old the fire arms were since Farquhar saw the smoke and was able to dodge the bullets.
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