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Theme Of The Sniper By Liam O Flaherty

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The theme of the story The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty is that killing will never satisfy lust, anger, sadness, or ever give you any sense of wholeness. Another possible theme of the story is that war can turn the best of friends into the worst of enemies. I feel this way because of when in the text it says “The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by remorse” and “his teeth chattered, he began to gibber to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody”. This section of the story explains how he feels after seeing his enemy die. This shows how killing will never satisfy any emotions. When he kills it just makes his emotions get worse and worse makes him regret everything more and more. In last paragraph of the story it
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