As it seems Rainsford is a man whose favorite sport is hunting. It seems that in his life he is always involved in hunting stuff. He comes from New York City; he is in a ship with her friend Whitney in a trip to the Amazons to hunt jaguars. By some circumstances he falls from the ship into the Caribbean
waters and as might he swam into the island and reaches the beach of it. At the next day he discovers that two men live in a house at the island he goes to ask refugee to them. General Zaroff and Ivan two ex-Cossacks lived in there. General Zaroff recognized Rainsford because he had read one of his books about hunting. Rainsford is welcome into the house of Zaroff. Zaroff begin telling his story about how he has love hunting since he was a 5 year old boy. He tells Rainsford that he had hunted every possible beast to hunt. He said he had get bored of hunting so as he can he brings people to the island and play a game with them. The game consists of him hunting a person if the person survives 3 days he give them their freedom. Rainsford doesn’t approve this he plays the game with General Zaroff wining him and killing Zaroff and Ivan.
So we can see Rainsford is a physically an athlete because Zaroff doesn’t put him to train before playing the game. We can also see he doesn’t approve any type of hunting or sometimes he is not a polish man at all. So in conclusion Rainsford shows us you can be the most polite man on Earth, but when your life is in danger you can turn into a beast. He shows us we doesn’t always have to put our passion in first and the correct things in second place, if not morally put our passion in second place.