The Question and Answer section for The Interlopers is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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...
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”...
The "narrow strip of precipitous woodland" is jealously guarded because the ownership of this part of the forest has long been argued over as Ulrich von Gradwitz has restarted the feud between his family and Georg Znaeym's family for this land.
