The Vital Setting For “The Most Dangerous Game”

Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” has an essential setting for the plot of the story. For instance, General Zaroff has no worry about his prey escaping the island because of the water surrounding the island with nowhere to swim. Without the hazardous rocks surrounding the island with also no land to be seen looking off it Zaroff would be driven to worry about his prey escaping. The water also does not allow people to leave the island because it is in the middle of nowhere. While hunting Rainsford realizes, “He was in a picture with a frame of water, and his operations, clearly, must take place within that frame” (11). The never ending water around the island ensures