Answer and Explanation:
In "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richard Connell, the main character is Sanger Rainsford, a famous hunter. At the beginning of the story, it is revealed through dialog that Rainsford has quite an arrogant attitude when it comes to the relationship between hunter and prey. He believes the world is divided into those two categories - hunters and huntees - and that he is lucky enough to have fallen into the first one. That, in his opinion, means he does not need to feel any empathy for the animals he kills. That is just the way life is.
Rainsford's epiphany on the matter will come due to an external conflict. The force behind the conflict is another hunter, General Zaroff, who invites Rainsford to hunt what he considers the most dangerous game of all with him. It turns out that Zaroff hunts other men because he believes it makes it all more interesting. Just as it is with Rainsford, in the general's opinion he is lucky to be the one hunting while the other men are just unfortunate to be the ones dying.
Of course, Rainsford refuses the strange invitation. He believes what the general does is murder. Zaroff then makes Rainsford his new game. That leads to Rainsford's epiphany. He is now able to understand what it feels like to be on the other side of relationship, to be the one running for his life. Rainsford learns to empathize with the "beasts" he once hunted in the most peculiar and scary manner.