“A Hanging” ends with the prison guards continuing with their day after executing a man. “We all had a drink together, natives and Europeans, in a quite friendly way. The dead man was about a hundred meters away. (335) The simplicity of the ending tells the reader how normal an execution is for men. It also helps show how simple the short film is in its entirety. The ending of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” was a cliffhanger. As a reader, I could assume that Farquhar had failed to escape death, but as a person with a heart, I still had hope that he would. However, my hopes were shattered by Ambrose Bierce's ending. Its ending which had Farquhar seeing his family completely changed again because of these simple words "Peyton Farquhar was dead..." While both stories end simply, the two differ