“The Sniper” by Liam O’flaherty and “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez really digs deep and somehow manages to play with emotions. Giving away that both stories circulates around the topic of war, O’flaherty and Tellez still portrayed the meaning of the stories in two completely different styles. Though both stories took place during a war, “the Sniper” happened in the battlefield on a rooftop at night while “LANE” happened in a barber shop in the afternoon away from an actual battlefield. As readers, we can easily assume that majority of wars happen in the form of an external or a person vs person conflict with both sides somehow relying on something usually for safety purposes. The two stories did successfully present these points
