The main flaw of the man in “to build a fire” has to ultimately be stubbornness. Regardless of everything that is happening around him and the situations he encounters, he continues to be as stubborn as can be. An old man from Sulphur Creek “had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in this country”, but instead the man laughed at him the whole time. In addition, his dog knew of the cold, the true feeling of the cold and didn’t want to leave the fire. Man being man wanted to continue, being stubborn, and not being aware of what his dog was doing wanted to continue in the cold because, “he did not know cold”. The man then falls into a pool of ice water and by now it may have well all been over. This is when he becomes “grateful
