Terror, anxiety, and the struggle to survive seem to come alive in “The Most Dangerous Game” an exhilarating short story by Richard Connell. The author makes the story a movie in one’s head through the immaculate use of figurative language and an immense amount of details. He does this so well that you can picture every move of the main character when they are in difficult situations. In this short story, the mood starts off when the protagonist, Rainsford, tries to: “peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it presses its thick warm blackness against the yacht”(Connell 60). This very descriptive excerpt from the text really describes and puts an image in one’s head of how it would feel like to be in Rainsford’s point of view.
