Bierce Serving as a union soldier in the Civil War, Bierce learned of war' s savageness, and how stupid and degrading it was. His writing style can be contributed to his war time experiences. His works are blunt, brutally realistic, and his attacks on others in the San Francisco Examiner, (American Authors 1600-1900 76) were nowhere near politically correct. Bierce's short stories "often hinge on an ironic surprising conclusion" (Contemporary Authors 48), as in one of his better known works "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge", were the sudden death of a Confederate spy catches us by surprise. A forerunner of the realist movement, Ambrose Bierce's cynical views of live and human existence gave him the nickname, "the wickedest man in San Francisco" (Contemporary Authors 41). Although often portrayed as a realist for his accounts on the Civil War, "Bierce was not strivin....

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