In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Bierce makes deliberate decisions about what information to reveal and when to reveal it. How do his...

By not revealing the truth, that Peyton Farquhar imagines the entirely of Part III in his head in the moments during which he falls from the bridge into the noose, until the very end of Part III, Bierce creates a great deal of suspense.  We get the sense that something is a little off when his sense of time slows down at the end of Part I and as he develops preternatural abilities to perceive...

By not revealing the truth, that Peyton Farquhar imagines the entirely of Part III in his head in the moments during which he falls from the bridge into the noose, until the very end of Part III, Bierce creates a great deal of suspense.  We get the sense that something is a little off when his sense of time slows down at the end of Part I and as he develops preternatural abilities to perceive details that human senses typically cannot or do not discern: the color of a man's eyes from quite far away, the flapping of insects' wings, dew sparkling on leaves, and so forth.  However, other details seem to suggest that Farquhar's experiences could be legitimate: mainly when he sees and hears the bullets whizzing past him underwater and when he feels the rope-burn around his neck (which would make sense if he was hanged and the rope broke).  Just as we are lulled into believing that he is about to reach his home, the rope becomes taught and his neck is broken.  By waiting to reveal this, Bierce leaves us in suspense for the majority of the story.