Much of the conflict which happens in "The Interlopers" by
H.H. Munro (Saki) involves man and nature. While the story is about two men who
literally want to kill one another, the setting of the story (which includes the weather
as well as their surroundings) prepares the reader for their
enmity.
One clear conflict between man and nature in the
story is the weather. On the night in which the story takes place, there is a violent
storm. The narrator says it is so bad that the night creatures are not out and the rest
of the animals in the forest are running away rather than just taking shelter as they
normally do.
The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered
hollows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things to-night, and there was
movement and unrest among the creatures that were wont to sleep through the dark hours.
Assuredly there was a disturbing element in the
forest....
It is this vicious
wind and storm which causes the tree to fall--the tree that traps Georg and Ulrich and
eventually makes them easy prey for the wolves, another force of
nature.
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