Since the characters of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg
Znaeym, who begin the narrative of "The Interlopers" as mortal enemies apparently
resolve their differences as they lie pinioned beneath the fallen mass of the beech
tree, they must, then, be classified as dynamic characters. So, the reader is compelled
to look beyond actual persons as the character who is flat/static. For, character can be
defined, along with a person, as animals, things, or natural forces appearing in
a literary work.
Clearly, Nature acts as the antagonist to
von Gradwitz and Znaeym when their actions are foiled by the violence of the
storm that "overwhelmed them both" and their intentions of shooting one another are
quickly ended by the mass of falling beech tree limbs upon them. Nevertheless, it would
seem that this accident of Nature has positive results as the two adversaries resolve
their enmity, and, thus, Nature has changed to an emissary of friendship. But, this is
not so. Nature remains the adversary as it attacks again in the form of wolves who
answer the men's cries. Therefore, in Saki's short story, it is Nature that is the
flat/static character.
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