12/15/11

The first foreshadowing most noticeable was when the man being hanged saw the driftwood floating down the river before the hanging. We later learn that the wood was probably from a pier where driftwood was lodged form a flood, and that two men devise a plan to burn it down. The fact that we saw the wood hinted that something involving it would happen later. The driftwood could also resemble the story he imagines where he falls from the bridge, floats down the river like the driftwood, and he makes his way home. Another way he foreshadowed the ending was how the narrator didn't explain what exactly happened to the bridge, he almost skipped a part, but we can tell that it was his imagination because it said that he was trying to remember his wife and children one last time before it cut to the two men talking about the pier. The other foreshadowing might have been his watch that seemed to be ticking slower and slower which is how all of this happened in his head before he died.