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Rainsford's Personality Of Hunting

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First of all Rainsford would hunt again since he is a big game hunter and is very passionate about what he does. He is passionate in what he does because when Rainsford and Whitney are on the boat Whitney tells him “You’ve good eyes,”... [and that he has] seen [him] pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards-” (Connell 19). Rainsford is so heartfelt about hunting that he has had so much experience about hunting therefore he has developed good eyesight which means that he enjoys and wouldn’t give up his skills. Another reason that he would continue hunting is that he believes that hunting is the “best sport in the world” (Connell 19). He would resume hunting because the only reason that Rainsford got on the boat was

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