In the short story, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the author portrays two distinctly alike men, who yet are very different. The two main characters, Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff both have a strong passion for hunting. However when it comes to their values of the sport, they hold opposing views. While one character believes that animals have no feelings the other one believes that hunting humans is anything but murderous.

Sanger Rainsford is an American hunter who until he becomes a victim of General Zaroff's game, he does not believe that an animal being hunted can feel fear or have any feelings. "The world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees."(Connell, 2) "Who cares how a jaguar feels?"(1) Rainsford's love for hunting is strong. He speaks of traveling around the world and he even wrote a book about hunting snow leopards...