Laughter shook the general. "How extraordinarily droll you are!" he said. "One does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even in America, with such a naive, and, if I may say so, mid-Victorian point of view. It's like finding a snuff-box in a limousine. Ah, well, doubtless you had Puritan ancestors. So many Americans appear to have had. I'll wager you'll forget your notions when you go hunting with me. You've a genuine new thrill in store for you, Mr. Rainsford."

"Thank you, I'm a hunter, not a murderer."

"Dear me," said the general, quite unruffled, "again that unpleasant word. But I think I can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded."

Which detail best reveals that Rainsford opposes Zaroff’s idea of the ideal prey?

A.) "How extraordinarily droll you are!" he said.
B.) “You've a genuine new thrill in store for you, Mr. Rainsford.”
C.) "Thank you, I'm a hunter, not a murderer."
D.) “But I think I can show you that your scruples are quite ill founded.”

This excerpt belongs to The Most Dangerous Game, a short story written by American author and journalist Richard Connell. It narrates the story of a man that falls off his boat while sailing in the Caribbean Sea and is rescued by a Russian person that lives in an island, just to find many surprises that would put his life in risk. In this case, Rainsford shows his disagreement because he considers that Zaroff's suggestion about the prey is better for a murderer, while Rainsford doesn't have that image of himself because he thinks he is a hunter.