The conflict between Rainsford and Zaroff in the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell is finally resolved through a physical confrontation between the two characters. The story tells the story of Rainsford, a big-game hunter who becomes stranded on an island after falling off a yacht. He soon discovers that the island's owner, General Zaroff, is a wealthy and eccentric hunter who has grown bored with hunting animals and has begun hunting humans instead.
Throughout the story, Rainsford and Zaroff engage in a cat-and-mouse game as Rainsford tries to evade capture and Zaroff tries to hunt him down. The climax of the story comes when Rainsford, who has been able to turn the tables on Zaroff and has him trapped, confronts him in his own lair. In the final confrontation, Rainsford kills Zaroff with a knife, thus resolving the conflict between the two characters.
Through this final confrontation, the author Connell presents the idea that Rainsford's survival instincts and hunting skills have been key to his ability to defeat Zaroff, and the story also shows that Zaroff's belief that hunting humans is a sport, is morally wrong and ultimately leads to his downfall.