The setting is so essential to the plot of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous game.” For example, General Zaroff creates a false channel so people will crash into the island and he can hunt them. Considering the island is surrounded by rocks, no ship would ever go near it, but the general creates a false channel. Then the ships will crash into the rocks and the survivors will be hunted by the general. General Zaroff points to the lights of the channel to Rainsford. “They indicate a channel where there is none”(8). The general is explaining to Rainsford how he gets his prey. Another reason that the plot is so important is that the island is surrounded by rocks. These rocks keep away passing ships because when