Intricacies Of Friendship And Rivalry In The Interlopers By Saki

Saki’s novel, “The Interlopers”, analyzes the intricacies of friendship and rivalry. The two men Ulrich and Georg promptly enroll in a family feud whom both were unaware of why. All through the protracted battle, the novel results in both men pinned under a tree exposing with what the author intended to be man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self conflict. Nevertheless the two men were compelled to reunite, resulting in an appalling ending.
Protagonist Ulrich and antagonist Georg greatly despises each other in the beginning, animosity starting with their grandfathers not only on the account of the family feud, but because of also personal hostility in the past. In paragraph two the author includes “as boys they had thirsted for one another's
blood” signifying person vs. person conflict by deliberately symbolizing blood to death and how both men craved the thought of ending the other ones life. “As men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this wind scourged winter night Ulrich had banded together his forester to watch the dark forest.” This quote is an example of pathetic fallacy resulting in the weather being cold and gloomy, producing to the anger and hatred that both men feel towards each other through imagery. “The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment,” Saki uses these quotes throughout the novel to reveal the envy Ulrich and Georg have for one another. The entire premise of the story is that two men are hunting each other on account for hatred derived from a centuries old land dispute displaying man vs. man conflict.