In "The Most Dangerous Game" are the characterizations carried out in direct way or indirect ways?"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell

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For the most part, Connell employs
indirect characterization for the personages of his thrilling short
story. 

Here is a list of the elements of
indirect
characterization:

• Physical
  description:

General Zaroff and
his servant Ivan are both described as Cossacks who are a group of Eastern Slavic people
known for their brutality.  They were military guards for the Russian borders. 
Interestingly, while Rainsford's physical description is not given, his impressions of
Zaroff are.  The general is an "erect, slender man" with a "cultivated voice marked by a
slight accent."  On the other hand, Ivan is

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a gigantic creature, solidly made and
black-bearded to the waist.  In his hand the man held a long-barreled revolver, and he
was pointing it straight at Rainsford's
heart.

• Description
  of the character's actions

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He [Rainsford] examined the ground closely and
found what he had hoped to find--the print of hunting boots.....Eagerly he hurried
along, now slipping on a rotten log or a loose stone, but making
headway.

The general shrugged his shoulders and delicately
ate a hothouse grape....He nodded toward the corner to where the giant stood, scowling,
his thick arms crossed on his hogshead of chest [Ivan].

Out
of the snarl of beard two small eyes regarded Rainsford.
[Ivan]

• Description
  of the character's thought, feelings, and
  speeches

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Rainsford's first impression was that the man
[Zaroff]was singularly handsome; his second was that there was an original, almost
bizarre quality about the general's face.

"No thrill left
in tigers, no real danger.  I love for danger, Mr. Rainsford."
[Zaroff]

"Surely your experiences in the
war--"

"Did not make me condone cold-blooded murder,"
finished Rainsford
stiffly.

Connell
does, also, employ direct characterization, which  involves the author's telling his/her
audience rather than dramatizing or showing as in indirect
characterization.  

Here is an example of
direct characterization:

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Rainsford did not want to believe what his reason
told him was true, but the truth was as evident as the sun that had by now pushed
through the morning mists....Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of
terror.