A Dangerous Game Conflict

The short story, ‘A Dangerous Game,’ brings out a cogent case of conflict among the two main characters in the story. It starts off with the narration of two sailors coming near an island that has gained much fame among seamen lore for its feared evils. While on board, Rainsford dismisses Whitney’s remarks regarding game hunting. Rainsford simply professes that the animals being hunted have no understanding and no one really cares about how they feel. He then comes across General Zaroff who is another accomplished hunter who apparently hunts fellow human beings for sport. Here, the first fundamental conflict is evidenced. Rainsford is great lover of hunting, but is unable to appreciate, accept and condone the type of hunting being perpetrated by Gen. Zaroff; even calling the general a murderer. The two believe that the world only has two types of people; hunters and hunter. Rainsford is however conflicted with the general’s extreme perception; holding that ‘The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure.’
Later on, Rainsford experiences the fear that he now able to understand as being similar to that the animals he hunts usually feel. This creates a major conflict in him. Eventually, he
The basic conflicts in this short story are those of leadership among the small group of pretend-gangsters, operations to run, unknown secrets of little detrimental effect and the limits of their acts. Much tension is built in the story through the gang’s decision to take on a mission which involved the damage and destruction of a building owned by an elderly fellow living next to the parking lot where the gang met. First, this undertaking has been proposed by T (Trevor) whose election as the leader did not settle well with Blackie who sought to undermine him and secondly, some of the gang members sought to call off the mission while