I kinda wonder about this, too. Every once in awhile I'll see someone talking about how tense & scary the story is, but the tone of the narration is like, "So then this city slicker dumbass makes ANOTHER rookie mistake. Man, even his dog knows he's gonna die out here." ๐
It's interesting that Jack London's To Build A Fire is considered a man v nature conflict, when it is extremely obvious the man is his own worst enemy.
Nature has nothing to do with him being an arrogant piece of shit, going "I'm built different," with nothing but a bagged sandwich in -80 weather.
