Rainsford in “The Most Dangerous Game” is the generic protagonist in a commercial fiction story. Connell created a good versus evil story that is very intriguing for many reasons. One of the reasons that the story is intriguing is because of the way he treats the character of Rainsford. He makes Rainsford into a very convincing protagonist. There are several criteria that a character has to pass to be a convincing one, and Connell’s protagonist, Rainsford, passes each and every one of them.
Rainsford never changes his behavior throughout the short story. His decisions all seemed to conform to the mold he sets for himself in the beginning of the story. Ev