In "The Most Dangerous Game," what does Zaroff mean by "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the huntees." How does his...

At the beginning of the story, Rainsford clearly states "Who cares what a jaguar feels?" when asked to consider the feelings of his prey.  Of course, this is an easy statement for him to make when he is in the position of power as the hunter; being so far removed from his prey in that he has never known the position of vulnerability, fear, and pain that his prey is in, it is easy for him to not understand, much less care, what his prey is feeling, as he says to Whitney before he ends up on ShipTrap Island.

However, his conflict with Zaroff does change this in that it places him, for the first time ever and quite probably for the first time for ANY hunter, in the position of the prey-- of the huntee.  Rainsford therefore now sees this phrase in a new light; until this point, he would most likely have agreed with this statement because he saw himself as the superior hunter.  Yet his new vulnerability as the huntee forces him to reconsider the feelings of the huntee he once cared nothing to know.