What do you think happens to Zaroff? What are some possible endings for the story?

demetrius,

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell was published in 1924. Greatly anthologized, and the author's most famous work, the short story features as its protagonist a big game hunter from New York, who falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbeans, the setting of the story, and then is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.

The story explores the opposite of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa that were popular among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.

The story pits Sanger Rainsford, an accomplished and experienced hunter from New York, as the prey, against General Zaroff, a Russian aristocrat.

The eventual ending of the story is only alluded to as Rainsford makes the remark, "He had never slept in a better bed." This implies that Rainsford had somehow either killed Zarof or gotten rid of him in any number of ways. That is what makes the story so much more mysterious.

If he didn't kill Zaroff, and had simply won the fight, maybe he would have slept in a "good bed."  But after all, he is one of the most accomplished hunters, and if he had killed Zaroff, it would make sense that he would sleep in a "better bed," for he had done what no other prey has done, outwit its hunter.