How is Rainsford a skilled hunter?
Similarly one may ask, how is Rainsford a good hunter?
Despite the general's impressive display of prized animals and experience hunting around the world, he is an inferior hunter to Rainsford and lacks the desperation and focus needed to win the "game." Rainsford demonstrates his superior skills and intellect by creating improvised traps to slow the general down during
Correspondingly, what type of character is Rainsford?
General Zaroff is a stereotypical adventure-story villain, and Rainsford is a stereotypical adventure-story hero, the kind of man that boys admire and would like to be. Rainsford is a man of action, strong, silent, handsome, athletic, poised, sophisticated, unflappable.
As a dynamic character in Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," Sanger Rainsford does undergo changes in his attitude about hunting. Later in the narrative, however, as he is being tracked by General Zaroff, Rainsford, who has been hunted for a day, hears the baying of Zaroff's hounds drawing nearer and nearer.