Summary Of The Most Dangerous Game By General Zaroff

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Throughout the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff tells the story of when he began to feel a problem within him. Zaroff explains to Rainsford that one evening , moments after he had taken the life of yet another creature, a horrible thought came to his mind, hunting was starting to bore him. Zaroff begins to develop a man vs self conflict. How would a man with such high class deal with such feelings. To him the answer was simple, finding a new creative idea to soothe his boredom would make the excitement he once felt return. Zaroff himself says “ I must do something.Now mine is an analytical mind” ( Pg.48). Zaroff lets the readers know that he is not someone who will just sit there and do nothing. He is a man that will do

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