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What is the main function of the flashback in an occurrence at owl creek bridge

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The reader would never learn what, correctly, Peyton did to get arrested. And it also adds to the irony of the story, in that the reader learns that Farquhar was tricked by Northern soldiers into trying to destroy the bridge.
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