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In the stories “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce, “The Dead” by James Joyce, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe and “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, the point of view that the story is told in has a great effect on the way it is received by the reader. The way a story is told can greatly change the overall feeling of a story more than one would expect. Generally, the closer the narrator is to the main character or characters, the more the reader can relate to the events of the story.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “The Dead” are both written from a third-person point of view where the narrator is outside the story looking in and relaying the events to the reader as he or she sees them. In “The Cask of Amontillado” and “All Quiet on the Western Front,” however, the narrator is tel...