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Bierce
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Serving as a union soldier in the Civil War,
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 ....
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....s confidence" (Short Story Criticism 49). For all of
this, why is Bierce considered a realist? Bierce, unlike
any other short story author before him, was not romantic
with his war depictions. He painted in our mind, its
gruesomeness, its wastefulness. Bierce's stories depict
soldiers "as bewildered fools, doing things without sense,
submitting to torture and outrage without resistance, dying
at last like hogs"(Discovering Authors Mencken, H.L.).
Nonetheless, as stated by Clifton.... |
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