The Owl Creek bridge

This story starts off with this man who is being hung for trying to burn a bridge. He is for the south and federal troops are hanging him. He is a plantation owner and a gentleman. However, as they hang him he gets this hallucination. He believes that he breaks free and swims down the river. He dodges bullets and runs all the way back home across the lines where he is still safe. However, at the end of the story it says that he is dead. His last moment was just a dream and the last thing he thought of was his home. This story shows the struggle of life and death and how his great escape was only a dream. He saw the end of life and only could think of the life he so badly wanted to keep.