I have provided a list of pertinent facts and information
provided by the author in "The Most Dangerous
Game."
- The protagonist is Sanger Rainsford, a
world-renowned big game hunter on his way to hunt jaguars along the Amazon
River. - The antagonist is General Zaroff, a Russian
Cossack who loves to hunt but has become bored with many aspects of
it. - The setting is Ship-Trap Island, Zaroff's home
located somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. - The two men meet
when Rainsford accidentally falls off his yacht and swims
ashore. - Zaroff's chateau is magnificently furnished, and
he seems to enjoy all the luxuries of life, despite his isolation and the remote
location of the island.
The dining room
to which Ivan conducted him was in many ways remarkable. There was a medieval
magnificence about it; it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with its oaken
panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory tables where twoscore men could sit down to
eat. About the hall were mounted heads of many animals--lions, tigers, elephants, moose,
bears; larger or more perfect specimens Rainsford had never seen. At the great table the
general was sitting,
alone.
- Also living
on the island is Zaroff's servant, Ivan--a giant of a man and a former Cossack who
served under the general. - Zaroff cuts an impressive
figure:
Rainsford's
first impression was that the man was singularly handsome; his second was that there was
an original, almost bizarre quality about the general's face. He was a tall man past
middle age, for his hair was a vivid white; but his thick eyebrows and pointed military
mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come. His eyes, too, were
black and very bright. He had high cheekbones, a sharpcut nose, a spare, dark face--the
face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an
aristocrat.
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