This short story is about a civil war taking place in Dublin. As the title says, the Sniper is the main character, and is hiding on the rooftop of a building near to O'Connel Bridge. Through the narration, O’ Flaherty …show more content…
For example, how the author chooses the words is very effective: "a man who is used to looking at death." This phrase is helpful for the reader because it gives the idea that he may have very cold looking eyes. By using the word looking, it hooks the reader's attention to the eyes of the sniper. Even though this suggests that the sniper didn’t have problem by killing people, for example, "The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered." This shows that he could kill, although he didn’t enjoy doing it. The word choice in this sentence is very effective and it makes it easy for the reader to imagine how the sniper feels. The word shuddered is a very good election because the reader can interpret it like if the sniper watched the body fall in the ground. This phrase reveals more about the character. Also, "He began to gibber to himself, cursing himself, cursing everybody," proves that the character doesn’t like killing people and he does feel guilty after doing it. Saying that he was cursing everybody means that he can have been forced to do this so he has a lot of anger towards