The plot of this short story revolved around a professional hunter named Rainsford. He falls off his boat and swims to an island where he recently heard gunfire. On this island, he finds a huge estate and meets a hulking man named Ivan. Ivan’s leader and the antogonist of the story, General Zaroff, enters the scene and introduces himself. Over dinner the general explains that he is a hunter who has lost interest in …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…the morality of the sport. Later Rainsford has the same argument on a different side with General Zaroff. The end result seemed to be that Rainsford was taught a lesson in the true morality of hunting. I believe this story was somewhat too far fetched. The chances of Rainsford “hearing” the shots in the distance, finding the estate, and swimming across a whole island were unbelievable. The story seemed more to entertain than to captivate.