TO BUILD A FIRE THEME OF PRIDE
Throughout "To Build a Fire," the man exhibits quite a bit of pride in his abilities, and this sense of pride is connected to his sense of being a Man with a capital M. Ultimately, the man seems to do everything in his power to make his journey successful, but his fatal mistake has been made before he even began his journey. He didn't heed the old-timer's advice, and decided to travel in temperatures lower than fifty degrees below zero without a traveling partner. It's a bad call, to be sure, but it's also just plain old hubris.
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