Oh... I am SO SO SORRY! I've been so sick the past few days, and I... I passed out I could barely move earlier. I can type today, but i can barely get out of bed right now.
The most dangerous game.
The contrast of having the protagonist hunted by both man AND beast is part of what makes this story so interesting.
How he was a hunter himself also to become hunted by other hunters is a good irony for itself. In most stories it would show a man slowly becoming more native as he descended into madness for the sake of survival. However in THIS story the madman is already there, and he must escape him. So while he becomes somewhat native, he only does so to survive, and escape his predators. He even manages to keep his mind and sneak back to his hunter's house.
While the story itself doesn't explain much about what happened next, it does at least tell us that Rainsford won the duel. The only reason I can assume that the story didn't feel like telling us what happened during the duel is either the author couldn't make a very good action scene, which is false, or he felt like just cutting to the victor with a clever quip would make a better ending, which it did.
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