Saki Interlopers Analysis

I’ve never been much of an outdoors person, the outdoors scare me, I don’t like bugs, or the dark. I would have never have been caught in the woods after dark the way Ulrich and Georg were. In the story “Interlopers” by Saki, two men, Ulrich and Georg, had a long existing argument over land owned by Ulrich; one night they encountered each other in the woods with the idea to kill one another, ironically, a beech tree had fallen on the men leaving them to struggle until they were found. While struggling to live the men decided that their feud was irrelevant and ended it, they called aloud for help but what came wasn’t what they hoped for, the responders were wolves. The story is still popular today because the conflict is relatable, the irony and suspense was interesting, and mood fit in well with the story.
First off, the conflict was relatable. The conflict between the men and their family was like many people's conflicts with their friends, usually they have an argument and decided to not be friends but sooner or later they end up making up. It has a long existing presence and both sides weren’t willing to give in. “... the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgement of the courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three
“I heard something, I think,” said Ulrich “I hear nothing but the pestilential wind,” said Georg (Saki 6). These quotes created suspense, it made you wonder what was going to happen when the men got out? How were they going to settle the feud? “Are they your men?” asked Georg “No,” said Ulrich “Who are they?” asked Georg “Wolves” replied Ulrich (Saki 7). The last couple sentences of the story were very ironic, on the same land the men had fought over for generations and the same land they had decided the feud to be over, was the same land both men had died