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Druse’s Father
A Union officer who has wandered away from camp and witnesses Druse’s father and his mount falling from a cliff side. Due to the angle of the sight and the officer’s precarious mental state, he believes that Druse’s father is a flying horseman and an apocalyptic symbol. The wandering officer briefly surmises that perhaps he has been chosen as some sort of prophet of the apocalypse, reinforcing the supernatural imagery used by Bierce to underscores the horrors of the Civil War.
The Wandering Officer Quotes in A Horseman in the Sky
The A Horseman in the Sky quotes below are all either spoken by The Wandering Officer or refer to The Wandering Officer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky—half believing himself the chosen scribe of some new Apocalypse, the officer was overcome by the intensity of emotions; his legs failed him and he fell.
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After Druse has shot the horseman—revealed later to have been his own father—a Union officer below sees the man and his horse falling through the air. Bierce here uses his strongest supernatural imagery and directly links it to biblical images by describing it as “apocalyptic.” The use of a scribe of the apocalypse is a direct parallel to the book of Revelation in the Bible, in which John the prophet (or scribe) witnesses the end of the world, the judgment of sins, and the birth of a new world. That the wandering officer’s mind is so immediately open to the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in.
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The Wandering Officer Character Timeline in A Horseman in the Sky
The timeline below shows where the character The Wandering Officer appears in A Horseman in the Sky. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 3
A wandering officer walks away from the regiment up to the foot of a cliff and into a...
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The wandering officer is both amazed and terrified. He firmly believes that it is a flying horseman and...
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The wandering officer is so convinced that it was truly a flying horseman that he sets off in...
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