In both short stories the author uses dialogue to prolong to events and create suspense in the readers mind. Dialogue prolongs events and brings questions into the readers mind like "What's going to happen next?" The authors show what is going on throw dialogue, instead of telling what is happening. We see this evident in "The Most Dangerous Game" when he uses the dialogue between Rainsford and Gen Zaroff to explain what the most dangerous game was. Then the dialogue progresses for a few pages to build the suspense through Rainsford's reaction to Zaroff's most dangerous game and slowly to the hunt. It would've been less suspenseful if the author would have just said that Zaroff hunts humans for living and then tells the story of the hunt.
In Wolfe's Child by Tiger, when Randy and the boys get caught in Dick's room looking at the rifle, the author uses dialogue to bring suspense to the scene and prolong the situation. Suspense builds in the readers mind through the dialogue between Dick and the Boys. Wolfe also uses dialogue when the bad news first hit town. As the reader we all suspected that it was Dick but Wolfe prolongs it through dialogue to build suspense in the reader.
The characters in the story also play an important role in building suspense. To bring suspense to the story the characters must be strong and the reader could almost identify with them. In The Most Dangerous Game, both Zaroff and Rainsford were very skilled hunters. Perhaps the best two hunters in that part of the world, Connell gives us the protagonist, Rainsford a worldly known big Game hunter on a quest to find the most dangerous game. Then there is Gen. Zaroff and ex-military man with a love and passion for hunting, so that he would hunt anything if it gives him a thrill. Connell also decides to add in the Giant Ivan and a couple of hunting dogs to add to the list of suspenseful characters. These characters all help set the stage for a suspenseful short story.
