Question

What atmosphere is created at the beginning of this story? What is the resulting mood? In

the story:the sniper by Liam o flaherty

Answer 1

The mood of “The Sniper” is nervous and suspenseful. O'Flaherty keeps you reading to find out what comes next. The reader feels the suspense and becomes nervous when the Republican sniper is shot and he has to make a plan so that he can both live and kill the Free Stater sniper on the opposite rooftop.

Liam O'Flaherty establishes the tense, ominous, violent mood of the story in the first paragraph by describing the atmosphere of Dublin under siege during the Irish Civil War.