Explain how beginning the story with the dialogue between Rainsford and Whitney contributes to both the author's characterization of Rainsford and the story's mood

Rainsford is relaying what he believes that humans are superior to animals, that animals don't have fear for anything and that they have no feelings of any sought.

Whitney, however, believes that animals do possess fear. Shortly after this conversation, Rainsford will learn that his belief in two well defined classes, the hunter and the prey isn't as cut and dry as he once believed. Becoming the hunted gives him a totally different point of view.

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