The theme of Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” is about instinct and reasoning. The story shows how using your instincts and rationally reasoning about a problem could prove to be useful, and how it might just save your life. Evidence for the theme can be found in the story. (42) “He wrestled himself out of his clothes and shouted with all his power.” The main character, Rainsford falls out of a yacht and lands in water. This shows his first instinct was to take his clothes off to become lighter and stay floating. Also Rainsford shouted with all his power in hopes of being heard and rescued. (42) “Where there are pistol shots, there are men. Where there are men, there is food.” When Rainsford was left alone in the water,
