Character Sketch of The Sniper :: Sniper

Character Sketch of The Sniper     War. Death. Pain. Anger and remorse. None are pleasantries, but each are eccentricd and handled every day. In Liam OFlahertys The Sniper, all of these shortengs are brought to an cutting reality. To aid in his creation of such emotional conflict, OFlaherty portrayed the sniper as a very controversial character. We can see this contrast in personality by looking at appearance, actions, and thoughts.     ...the salute of a student, thin and ascetic,...eyes had the cold gleam of the fanatic. And so the sniper is described in a somatogenic sense. Upon looking at the meaning of the words, we find an unexpected conflict of definition. OFlaherty writes that the snipers face is that of a student. We think young, and vibrant. However, to describe his meaning, he goes on to say that his face is both thin and ascetic. Also, gaunt, and displaying self-discipline both qualities carried more so in adults than students. Also, it is stated that the sniper had the eyes of a man who is used to looking at death. One might imagine an older man, who has lived through many-a-war and seen lives lost.  These three descriptions utter that the sniper was older than his years in appearance, as well as emotionally.      The snipers actions to a fault are cause to believe that he is more than meets the eye.  In the story, the sniper considers illuminate a cigarette. It was dangerous...he decided to take the risk. Ones knowledge that something is dangerous and then their persistency to carry out the action shows a true daredevil. A feature article of the student in him mentioned earlier. Another, much different, action of the snipers is the need to discover who he killed. After the remorse of the crime committed, the sniper proceeds to investigate his enemys identity. ...felt a explosive curiosity as to the identity of the enemy sniper... This shows that the sniper did, in fact, have a st reak of humaneness and care in him. A very different mood from the daredevil.     Lastly, the way the sniper thinks reveals much about his character. When he is considering means of escape, he comes up with a plan to trick the enemy sniper into believing he himself was dead.