The Most Dangerous Game Mood Analysis

Authors using detailed descriptions to create a vivid image in a reader’s mind, are able to produce a suspenseful mood to keep the reader engaged. In The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell’s use of imagery paints a picture in the readers’ minds. Suspenseful moods that are created by these pictures, are what keeps the readers wanting to know what happens next in the story, keeping them involved and continuing on with their reading. During the exposition, climax and falling action, suspense is created when Connell describes the situations that Rainsford falls into with great detail. In The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell uses imagery to create mood. In the exposition of the story, Connell creates a suspenseful mood utilizing the description of what Rainsford hears, and sees whilst he is in the water, and when he arrives on the island. After Rainsford falls off the boat and is no longer struggling in the water, he hear the sound a pain-filled scream and a
Connell writes, “But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face. Very deliberately he blew a smoke ring into the air; then he turned his back to the tree and walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come” (Connell 35). By describing what the general does, when he could have easily ended his hunt right then, Connell creates suspense about what is to follow for Rainsford, and what the general will do once he returns for him. Connell not only creates suspense by using imagery in the climax, but employs the usage of it throughout the rest of the