Their discussion centers on their chosen sport, big game hunting, and whether wild animals have any fear when they are being stalked by humans.Īlmost immediately the reader senses that Rainsford’s surroundings are threatening. Initially set on board a steamer headed for South America, “The Most Dangerous Game” begins with a conversation between two hunters, Rainsford and Whitney, who are aboard the vessel and are nearing a dangerous stretch of water that shipping charts label as Ship Trap Island.
Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is widely anthologized in both high school literature and college introductory fiction courses largely because it offers a fine illustration of many of the potential conflicts that an author can incorporate into an compelling plotline: man versus man, man versus nature, and man versus himself. Analysis of Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game
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