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The Most Dangerous Game
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Richard Connell
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The Most Dangerous Game Characters
Meet the Cast
Sanger Rainsford
This is one protagonist who learns a lesson—or does he? Rainsford starts out like a big macho man, a real Teddy-Roosevelt-posing-with-a-hippo. By the end, he's a frightened animal. But how much d...
General Zaroff
Look. We shouldn't even have to say this, but we're going to anyway: never trust a European aristocrat in the middle of a jungle. It's just good practice. If Rainsford had known that—well, he pro...
Ivan
This Cossack sounds like mean version of Andre the Giant. He’s the ideal butler-bouncer: huge, strong, obedient, and dumb (literally). We don't get a ton of character development from this guy—...
Whitney
Whitney is Rainsford’s hunting partner, and he gets about, oh, three lines in the entire story. His main role is to set up Rainsford's character by being a contrast. Whitney believes that jaguars...