The Sniper is a short story written by Liam OFlaherty The story is about a civil war taking place in Dublin The Sniper is the main character and is hiding on the rooftop of a building near to OConnel Bridge The war is between the Free states and the Republicans The sniper is on the side of the Republicans I intend to discuss how tension and a sense of horror is created by OFlaherty Furthermore I will also discuss how effectively he reveals the main character in the story OFlaherty uses several
Liam OFlahertys The Sniper conveys the distressed images of a sniper during the civil war on a dark June night in Dublin Ireland The authors effective use of setting imagery and characterization suggests that war creates chaos and turns brothers into enemies Nothing good comes out of a war and morally nobody wins The main character a sniper lies beneath the support that war not only demoralizes human beings to simple objects but has no boundaries and turns one brother against another OFlaherty