Zaroff Pride Quotes

First, throughout the whole story Zaroff can be characterized as confident. The first reason he can be called confident is that he gives his prey a three-hour head start. Zaroff says, “I give him a three hours’ start.”(Connell 50). This shows that Zaroff is confident because he is sure that if he lets the get a three-hour head start that he can still catch them and find them. The second reason Zaroff can be characterized as confident is that he traps sailors’ ships and has them washed ashore. Zaroff says, “”They indicate a channel,” he said, “where there’s none: giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I can crush this nut.” (Connell 50). The last reason Zaroff can be classified as confident is because he thinks that he is the best hunter, he said, “To date I have not …show more content…
The second characteristic that Zaroff can be classified, as is that he is cunning. The first reason is that Zaroff has built his own traps to capture and kill his prey, “Then he felt an impulse to cry aloud with joy, for he heard the sharp crackle of the breaking branches as the cover of the pit gave way; he heard the sharp scream of pain as the pointed steaks found their mark.” (Connell 56) This is what Rainsford was thinking because the Generals best hunting dog had just fallen it to his own trap and died, but Zaroff is impressed with the fact that he made the trap. The second reason that Zaroff can be considered cunning is that he does not miss the trails that his prey took ”Something was coming through the bush, coming slowly, carefully, coming by the same winding way Rainsford had come.” (Connell 53). This demonstrates that General Zaroff is cunning because, he is tracking the exact path that Rainsford took even though Rainsford took a path that he thought would demoralize the