Most Dangerous Game Comparison

Many stories can have characters that are similar in multiple ways. A way two characters can be similar is by the way they change. The character Alice in the story “Alice” changes fairly identical to how Sanger Rainsford changes in “The Most Dangerous Game”. Both experience a dynamic approvable alteration from the beginning to the end of the story. In Alice, Alice is described to live in a run down house, “flies buzzed in and out of the always-open door...”(line 7), “dim rank-smelling rooms...”(line 9), “as my feet caught on the sticky gray wooden floor...”(line 11). She is the kind of woman that drinks beer, doesn’t keep herself tidy, and has bad woman talk. She was titled “Drunk Alice”(line 1), “Alice of the streets”(line 1), and “Alice of the party”(line 50). In The Most …show more content…
In Alice, it takes place during an eight years the narrator didn’t see Alice. During that eight years her husband and one of her sons died. She also lost custody of her disabled son to the county hospital. That is Alice’s trigger. Rainsford’s is after he meets a man named General Zaroff. The General suggest a hunt but Rainsford must deny for they would be hunting men. Rainsford’s idea of hunting has now change. “What you speak of is murder”(Line 400). At that point is when Rainsford is put out in the wilderness and Zaroff hunts him. After the trigger events, Alice becomes a better person. She cleaned up her house. She shut the doors. She became a member of a church. When the narrator saw Alice again, her face was dusted and her hair was brushed in a neat ball. She was no longer the beer drinking bad woman she used to be. In The most Dangerous Game, Rainsford changes to the huntee. He acquires traits that would be seen as animalistic. “Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther”(line 68-69). These prey like instincts he shows are what helps him survive. He is able to outwit General Zaroff and kill