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After Rainsford chooses the hunt, he starts to lose his nerve. He has to continually tell himself, "I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve."
In the beginning, the crew of Rainsford's ship was on edge and had a curious dread of Ship-Trap Island. The name alone was enough to make them worry. Rainsford had to have had an internal conflict about the island.
During the hunt, Zaroff locates Rainsford quite quickly, but instead of killing him, he stopped looking farther up the tree in which Rainsford lay hidden, smiled, and walked carelessly away. Zaroff is trying messing with Rainsford's head, and it's working.
When Rainsford fell off of the ship, it caused an external conflict of needing to get out of the water and onto land or the boat.
Rainsford has to make the decision to either hunt, or be tortured to death by Ivan. If he chooses the hunt, then he might survive, but if he refuses to hunt, Ivan will kill him without even offering a chance of survival.
When Rainsford is discovered in Zaroff's bedroom by Zaroff himself, Zaroff said, "One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed." After that, the story said, "He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided," which makes it safe to assume Zaroff furnished a repast for the hounds. Rainsford could have simlpy left, or at the very least asked to leave. Instead, he bacame more like Zaroff, who he thought was a monster.
After Rainsford fell off of the ship, he had to swim toward the pistol shots. When he got there, he was so exhausted it caused an external conflict of survival
When Zaroff told Rainsford that he hunted men, Rainsford was in a dreadful state of shock. He had to decide if he should try to escape, or stay and hope for the best.