Sanger Rainsford - Character Sketch "You've good eyes," said Whitney, with a laugh, "and I've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards." Those are the words used to describe Sanger Rainsford, the skillful and celebrated hunter and protagonist in the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game". Rainsford had great instincts when it came to hunting, and always being alert and perceptive naturally helps. "An abrupt sound …showed first 75 words of 455 total…

…showed last 75 words of 455 total…dogs, but his final and most deadly one, a knife snare he learned in Uganda, claimed Ivan's life. "...he saw in the shallow valley that General Zaroff was still on his feet. But Ivan was not." "The knife, driven by the recoil of the springing tree, had not wholly failed." A brave and intelligent hunter, Sanger Rainsford proved to be even more deadly than General Zaroff, although the former is deadly in a righteous way.