What effect does the author’s choice of resolution have on the passage’s overall meaning?

Just as Saki warns against possessing land, he also cautions against unchecked greed. The forests are described as the “most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions” and the feud is fed by a sustained “personal ill-will” between the two men (391). This greed contributes to the demise of the two characters. Greed is a man-made concept and nature detached from it. In just a short amount of time, the force of nature manages to erase a generations-old feud between the main characters. By trapping the men, it interferes in their affairs and prompts a complete reversal of the feelings of hate and greed the men once harbored.