Conflict. It’s what we all deal with everyday. Problems, dilemmas, discords, it all seems like there’s more problems than we can solve. In a short novel called “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man named Rainsford is left facing many conflicts as he is accidentally stranded on an island, occupied by a mysterious man named General Zaroff. Rainsford has to survive three days on the island as he is forced to play Zaroff’s game, trying to avoid the General while he is hunting him down. Richard Connell uses many ways to arouse conflicts in “The Most Dangerous Game.” The use of conflicts in stories creates suspense, creates the plot, and allows the characters to develop as the story goes on. One of the very first suspenseful settings
