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The Most Dangerous Game is a highly-trimmed short story,with well-knitted plot,deep-carved characters,suspense,symbols,ironies,etc.Beyond its elaborate form,it conveys far-reaching social and cultural values.This paper is an attempt to appreciate the story inside out,in which structural approach and cultural approach are employed.Parallels and contrasts in structure and the unique shifts and gaps in its narration are highlighted to explore the tradition of reason superiority in western culture and the doom it has brought to the world and to the people concerned.The First World War is the fighting between rational beings.Rationality,when brought to extremes,may lead to irrationality.The image of General Zaroff is a reflection of modern westerner who boasts to be rational being while killing his fellow beings in bloody wars.