How does Rainsford's disussion about hunting at the start of the story foreshadow later developments in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous Game,"
opens with Rainsford and his friend Whitney relaxing aboard their yacht shortly after
nightfall. Their discussion first centers around the mysterious Ship-Trap Island, of
which "Sailors have a curious dread." (This conversation foreshadows the later events on
the island.) The two men then move on to talk of their greatest love--big game hunting.
They both agree that it is the greatest sport in the world, but Whitney
adds

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"For the hunter... Not for
the jaguar."

Rainsford calls
this talk "rot," claiming that animals have no feelings, no understanding. But Whitney
disagrees.

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"Even so, I
rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of
death."

Again, Rainsford
disagrees, pointing out that

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"The world is made up of two classes--the hunters
and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are
hunters."

Their conversation
foreshadows not only the reversal of positions that Rainsford will face when he his
hunted by Zaroff, but also of the fear that Rainsford--as the hunted--will feel during
his time on the run.

Whitney later talks of the
ominous "evil" and the "mental chill; a sort of sudden dread," that he felt when they
passed the island. Rainsford calls it "Pure imagination," but the conversation further
foreshadows the evil nature of the man who inhabits Ship-Trap
Island.