The Interlopers

In the story The Interlopers by Saki, the theme that you should book by its cover is displayed through out.  For instance, at first Ulrich believes that Georg is an ill willed person that just wants to steal land from the Gradwitz family. He goes out one night to find and kill his enemy Georg in the wilderness with a hunting team. Ulrich is so caught up with the passed history between their families that he doesn't realize that maybe the family has changed through its generations. Instead, he just expects that their family is all the same, stuck up and land hungry. Later in the story, Ulrich and Georg are stuck under a tree and finally get to talk to one and other. During their conversation they Ulrich realizes that Georg isn't as bad as he though he was and come to an agreement on the land. Ulrich goes beyond the cover of the book and sees that Georg is just a no marl human being that isn't ill willed and land hungry. Grudging a book by its cover never seems to be a smart idea, and this them is displayed in though the short story.