“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff are completely different short stories, but their characters and imagery are very similar. From a cold, winter forest to a humid, sticky forest, the stories’ settings are as polar opposite as possible. These stories may have very different settings, but they have startling comparisons between the protagonists, the antagonists, and the plots. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” there are two main characters. Rainsford is the protagonist and Zaroff is the antagonist. The conflict of this story is man versus man or good versus evil. Rainsford is a dynamic character is the story. He starts out hunting for fun. However, in the end, Rainsford has an epiphany and sees how cruel hunting is as a game. Zaroff is a static character that begins the book hunting humans for fun, but dies by a human because of his obsession. This story takes place on an island called Ship-Trap Island where Zaroff lives (Connell 62). “The Most Dangeorous Game” focuses on the color black because the setting is mostly at night when the men are hunting (Connell 74).
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All three of the characters are evil. This story has a conflict of man versus something greater than himself. Kenny thinks it is funny to make fun of Tub, but, because he takes it a bit too far, gets killed (Wolff 85). Frank seems to be a nice guy, but later shows that he is having an affair with his babysitter (Wolff 89). Tub is overweight and, toward end of the book, tells Frank about his eating disorder (Wolff 91). All these men are static characters because they never change their problematic ways. “Hunters in the Snow” takes place on a winter day (Wolff 79). The story puts emphasis on the color white because it is on a snowy winter day. This seems ironic because white is a pure color, and these men are all
All three of the characters are evil. This story has a conflict of man versus something greater than himself. Kenny thinks it is funny to make fun of Tub, but, because he takes it a bit too far, gets killed (Wolff 85). Frank seems to be a nice guy, but later shows that he is having an affair with his babysitter (Wolff 89). Tub is overweight and, toward end of the book, tells Frank about his eating disorder (Wolff 91). All these men are static characters because they never change their problematic ways. “Hunters in the Snow” takes place on a winter day (Wolff 79). The story puts emphasis on the color white because it is on a snowy winter day. This seems ironic because white is a pure color, and these men are all