The Sniper Criticism

Liam O’Flaherty
This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sniper.

The Sniper Criticism

Liam O’Flaherty
This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Sniper.
This section contains 501 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Sniper Study Guide

"The Sniper" was O'Flaherty's first published short story, and as it would turn out, was different from the main body of his short fiction. O'Flaherty became most known for his stories about nature, animals, and Irish peasants, not for the stories he wrote about urban Ireland. Of his numerous stories, only four stories deal with the Irish civil war, while another handful are set in Irish cities. However, according to James M. Calahan, author of Liam O'Flaherty: A Study of the Short Fiction, O'Flaherty's political stories cannot be separated from the others, for "politics permeate all of his works." In a story like "The Sniper," politics are simply more obvious.

The Sniper: Four Courts Building in Dublin, Ireland, seen here in 1922, is the location of the standoff described in the "The Sniper" [graphic graphicname="TIF00167385" orient="portrait" size="A"]

Generally, O'Flaherty's urban stories present a bleak...

(read more)

This section contains 501 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Sniper Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
The Sniper from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.