Georg and Ulrich each think the other is the interloper on a piece of land that each believes he is the rightful owner of. This is a long-standing feud between the men's families that has become personal and bitter between Ulrich and Georg.

When they are both pinned under the branches and foliage of a beech tree that comes crashing down in a storm, they are glad of the opportunity they believe has presented itself. Both expect their foresters to come soon to their rescue, and both look forward to fighting it out to the death between themselves and their men, with no "interlopers" to interfere with the battle.

However, the real interlopers are unanticipated by either man. Just after the two have decided to end their feud and become friends, a pack of wolves arrive that have been attracted by their cries for help. The wolves will reach the scene before any foresters, and both men will be devoured.

Both men have developed a narrow and arrogant mindset. They have only feared each other and have felt that only the other could claim ownership over the land. They have completely forgotten that nature has its owns ideas. The land is occupied by other predators, who can easily enough exert their own brute force or ownership over territory humans have deluded themselves into thinking is wholly theirs. Therefore, both the wolves and the two men serve as "interlopers" in this story.

An interloper is an intruder. In the story it is Ulrich, Georg, and their families who are the intruders. Both men feel that the forest belongs to them. They look upon the land as a piece of property, something that can be bought and sold. But their unfortunate experience with the falling tree reminds them that this is not the case. Irrespective of Georg and Ulrich's legal claims, nature has a life of its own; ultimately it belongs to no one. The forest has been around since time immemorial; it was there long before either of these men and their families even existed, and it will still be there long after they've died. The Von Gladwitzes and the Znaeymses are interlopers, trespassers on a piece of land which in actual fact doesn't really belong to either family.

The term interlopers refers to those who interfere in the affairs of others. This term takes different meaning as the story unfolds. In the beginning the two men refer to interlopers as anyone who might try to stand in the way of them killing each other. Later, after the two men are trapped under the tree, make peace, and end their families' feud, they refer to interlopers as anyone who might try to stop them from making peace. In the end of the story, it is ironic because it is the wolves who become the interlopers and because it is the wolves instead of men, the feud continues.

The term "interlopers" has many applications in this story. Ulrich feels that Georg is interloping on his land. Georg thinks Ulrich is interloping on land that he (Georg) should have access to. 

When Ulrich goes out hunting for Georg, hoping to catch him on his land, the two enemies meet. Each man has always considered to other to be the interloper. 

After the tree falls, pinning them both to the ground, both men threaten each other. Ulrich claims that his men will find them and Georg will be in severe trouble. Georg also claims that his men are out in the forest and they will find them first. So, again, we have more potential interlopers. Ulrich thinks his men will be the final interlopers and Georg thinks it will be his men. 

However, before either group arrives, Georg and Ulrich end the feud and become friends. Ironically, they have to worry about a new set of interlopers: the wolves. 

What is an interloper and who are the interlopers in the story?

According to the American Heritage College Dictionary, an interloper is a trespasser, a person who intrudes in a place or situation. An interloper is also a meddler in the affairs of others.

In Saki's short story entitled "The Interlopers," Ulrich von Gradwitz patrols the dark forest one night in search of his enemy. He considers Georg Znaeym an interloper, a trespasser and "game-snatcher" on his "narrow strip of precipitous woodland" that has been reclaimed from the illegal possession of the Znaeym family "in a famous lawsuit." There is strong animosity between the two men, but when they suddenly confront each other as they each come around the trunk of a huge beech tree, they hesitate in a civilized moment before firing their rifles at each other. In that instant, lightning strikes the tree, and the men are pinioned beneath a tangle of branches.

Although not fatally injured, the two men are exasperated that they are trapped together. Each curses the other and adds insults, describing what his men will do to the other when they arrive. After some time, though, the two men reconcile with one another because they realize the folly of their animosity. Graciously, one tells the other than when his men come, he will have them aid the other. However, in another twist of fortune, there are new interlopers. In the "chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear," Ulrich von Gradwitz tells Znaeym that these new interlopers are wolves.

What is an interloper and who are the interlopers in the story?

The first poster covered the definition and three possible interlopers in the story. However, I would argue that Georg and Ulrich are interlopers themselves. Represented in the external conflict of "man vs. nature" found in the story, the two characters may be considered trespassers (interlopers) in the forest. Both attempt to claim ownership, but this something that can only be offered by society.

In truth, the men and their civilization cannot truly claim the land, as evidenced by their inability to tame the natural world. The tree's attack on the men illustrates this idea, and by the end of the story the men are about to be attacked by a pack of wolves. Each man has abused his rights by coming into the forest with the hope of killing his enemy to gain possession of the woods. However, the wolves, beasts that belong to the wild, appear to be the true victors in this conflict, as it is implied they will kill their human enemy and rid their world of these human intruders.

What is an interloper and who are the interlopers in the story?

There are at least two types of interlopers in the short story, "The Interlopers," by Saki (H. H. Munro), but only one of the group is deadly. When lifelong enemies Georg and Ulrich finally decide to end their feud once and for all, fate gets in their way. Meeting in the forest one night, they both plan to kill one another with their rifles, but neither can pull the trigger. Suddenly, a tree is felled by a bolt of lightning, and both men are pinned helplessy beneath it. Each of them expect to be found by their friends, who will then leave the remaining man to die alone. But before this happens, the two men make nice and decide to end their quarrel for good. Joining forces, they both call out for help. When they see movement in the darkness, they think they are saved. But, no! They are not men, they are hungry wolves instead. The reader is left to guess what happens next.

The interlopers, or intruders, are the wolves. If the expected arrival of the other men had occurred first, they, too, could have been considered interlopers upon the two men's quarrel. And, the tree which fell on them could also be looked upon as an unwanted interloper as well.

What is an interloper and who are the interlopers in the story?

The interlopers in the story are two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz and George Znaeym.  The two are involved in a feud that has spanned three generations, all resulting from a lawsuit Gradwitz' family placed against Znaeym for the land. The courts granted them the land, however the Gradwitz' family refused to give it up. The two families have been involved in a feud ever since.  The term "interloper" refers to a person who interferes in the business of others. The two are considered to be interlopers by the other as they both believe the other is trespassing on his land.

However, the wolves at the end of the story are also technically interlopers since they are intruding on the two men caught under the tree.  Though in yet another view, one could say the two men are interlopers in the woods which are really owned by its animal inhabitants, namely the wolves.

What is an interloper and who are the interlopers in the story?

An interloper can be defined as someone who becomes involved in a place or situation where they're not wanted. It's often the case, for example, that folk will poke their noses into other people's business or butt in to conversations which have nothing to do with them. Such people are interlopers.

As indeed are the two characters in Saki's short story "The Interlopers". But both Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz are too blinded by mutual loathing and the bitter feud that has kept their families at each other's throats for so long that they're unable to see this. As far as each man is concerned, the other is the real interloper, an unwelcome intruder trespassing on a piece of land that's rightfully theirs.

In actual fact, however, both Georg and Ulrich are interlopers in that this part of the world doesn't really belong to either of them or anyone else for that matter. For this humble plot of land is part of the natural environment. It was there long before either the Znaeym and von Gradwitz families arrived on the scene, and it'll still be there long after they've gone. The suggestion here is that human beings, in disrespecting the natural world by treating it as an object of exploitation, constitute an entire race of interlopers.