The critics Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren have said that Bierce's story depends too much on a quirk of human psychology and is thus a mere "case study" that does not reveal anything important about human nature, as good fiction does. Do you agree? Why or why not?
disagree because this story took us on a journey with a man who was dead the whole time. We got to discover what was most important to him and we understood that everything became more distinct to him. That gave us insight to what type of person he was and his nature.