Although in "The Most Dangerous Game," General Zaroff is more fully characterized, Richard Connell, the author, intended for Rainsford to be the dynamic character while Zaroff is considered static and both are considered plausible in today's society. Zaroff is physically characterized more than Rainsford and his possessions are better described. Rainsford is the character that changes throughout the story and Zaroff remains the same. Both of these characters are considered plausible because it is possible for both of them to exist in society. In this story, Rainsford is on a hunting trip with Whitney, a friend, and he falls off the boat one night reaching for his pipe. He eventually makes it to the shore of a nearby island and stumbles across a very big house. The house belongs to General Zaroff, and this is where Rainsford and Zaroff first meet. Zaroff recognizes Rainsford's name because he had read all of his hunting books. Then, Rainsford and Zaroff begin talking about hunting and Zaroff tells Rainsford how he got bored with hunting and how he came up with a new animal to hunt. Zaroff told him it was humans and Rainsford went crazy. Rainsford wanted off the island, but Zaroff would not let him unless he could hunt Rainsford. If Rainsford could elude him for three days, then Zaroff would let him go. After three days of outsmarting and outrunning Zaroff, Rainsford was finally free.
             During the story, the reader gets a better physical description of General Zaroff. There is not a physical description of Rainsford. The reader learns all about how Zaroff looks and feels. We also get the impression that Zaroff is a "savage" when he says that he is a Cossack like Ivan who he said was a "savage." The only descriptions of Rainsford in the story are when we figure out that Rainsford is civilized and has values. The reader finds this when Rainsford when Rainsford goes off on Zaroff for hunting humans. He calls Zaroff a murderer and tries t...