The first technique of indirect characterization that I would like to discuss is characterization by what a character says. Much can be taken away from many of the things Zaroff says in this story, in the very beginning he makes it clear that he has “‘but one passion in [his] life...the hunt.’”(6). At first glance this may seem fairly insignificant but, later we are revealed exactly how much his decisions are motivated, and swayed by this passion. Then, Zaroff starts revealing his true colors, and begins to lessen his facade. The general’s rather racist, superior personality is first shown when he comments on “‘[h]ow extraordinarily droll are you [Rainsford]!’...’One does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even