Theme of The Interlopes

    The theme of The Interlopes is that it is better to have friends than have enemies. In the short story, Georg and Ulrich have been enemies from the start because they are fighting over who actually owns the land. They come upon each other in the woods while they are hunting. A beach tree falls on them and they can't get up. They fight over whose men will come first to save them and they tell each other that the other person will kill them first when they get out from under the tree. Later Ulrich realized that if they want to be saved then they have to work together so he offered to be friends with Georg. Georg agreed and they were then fighting over who would free the other friend first. Excitement hit their body because they thought that someones men were coming to save them but then they realized that it was actually wolves. If they had been friends before then they wouldn't have been under the tree and they may have had time to come up with a plan to save themselves before the wolves came.