Most Dangerous Game Suspense Essay

The Sneaky Game In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell the author successfully uses suspense to create an understanding of the short story. Connell uses techniques like foreshadowing, cliffhangers, and imagery to develop the overall suspense of the characters and the plot. Additionally, he focuses on themes like the difference between right and wrong, coupled with the idea of violence to further develop the suspense in the story. Connell’s first technique used was foreshadowing by creating suspense early in the setting at of the story. The technique can be seen through Rainsford’s suspicious discovery to “an animal in extremity of anguish and terror” (Connell 3). The screaming sound of an animal can be heard from a distance builds the …show more content…
The imagery of nature was to help enhance Rainsford’s understanding of his surroundings. For instance, Rainsford's discovery in “...the truth…” behind Zaroff’s lies “ as [it was] evident [like] the sun… pushed… morning mist” (Connell 12). The author presents the sun and the wind to Rainsford’s true understanding of Zaroff's manipulative lies. He compares Zaroff’s persuasive lies to the hazy fog and Rainsford’s knowledge to the sun melting the misty fog. It reveals Rainsford’s final moment of disbelief as he comes to the realization of Zaroff as a classy man, who was no more than a malicious and immoral man, that hurts man for a sport. Furthermore, Rainsford reveals more suspense as he describes the imagery of the ocean. He goes on describing the ocean as a “...cry…pinched off short [with]… blood-warm waters...” (Connell 2). Connell uses an analogy to compare the bloody waters to human blood. The imagery compares the human blood to Zaroff’s obsession in hunting humans as a result of bloody waters surrounding the island. Zaroff's obsession of hunting humans for game is significant to the suspense, because it was his own monetary