According to britannica.com Liam O’Flaherty was an Irish author that wrote short stories that had a mix of brutal naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire (2015). He wrote many short stories that got readers to think in a different way to solve what is going on in the story. Liam was considered a leading figure in the Irish Renaissance, for his novels “ The Informer,” “ The Neighbour’s Wife,” and “The Sniper,” just to name a few. These stories were all well known for their complexity and gruesome details. However, many people miss the little details that O’Flaherty implemented into his stories. The story starts off with a sniper on top of a building scouting for other snipers that are trying to kill him. The sniper …show more content…
War destroys more than buildings and villages, it destroys the hearts of those who are fighting and the families’ of those soldiers. Liam exploits this with many different literary devices in the story. Soldiers in the middle of the battle that have seen so much death and destruction, see it everywhere, even in their own dreams. Additionally, the soldier’s family has to deal with the depression and destruction when the family’s son or daughter falls in the midst of the war. In a war both sides have to spend ginormous amounts of money to pay for all of the destruction that occurred in the duration of the war. As a result, one side may lose more than what it was trying to gain from the …show more content…
It might be his wedding day, the birth of his son, or maybe it could be the tragic death of his fellow soldiers on the battlefield. Killing another person or seeing someone get killed is not something one can easily forget. It usually leaves soldiers scarred for life with the mental disorder called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a result, soldiers have terrible nightmares and visions of what they once say on the battleground. The sniper in the story shoots three people without even flinching, again shooting a defenceless elderly woman. He will live with shooting that woman for the rest of his life, not to mention him shooting his brother. In the movie “American Sniper,” the protagonist Chris Kyle had shot a little boy, because he was carrying a hand grenade. These people do not realize what they have done until after it has