Why is the stream-of-consciousness technique particularly appropriate for "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

Stream of
consciousness is a literary technique that focuses on the flow of thoughts within the minds of
characters rather than objective linear narrative. The term was first described in The
Principles of Psychology by William James.

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself as chopped up in
bits. Such words as "chain" or "train" do not describe it fitly... It is
nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by
which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of
thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

The short story "" bytells of a Confederate sympathizer during the
American Civil War who has been captured by the Northern army and is condemned to be hanged as a
spy. As he stands upon a railroad bridge with his hands tied behind his back and a rope around
his neck, he thinks back to the circumstances that have brought him to this moment, and he even
fantasizes...