This story is told from a third person limited from the man's point of view.
The conflict in this story is that the man has to build a fire to avoid freezing; he also has to remain calm and think criticall even as he faces death. The conflict in this story is not only person versus nature but also person versus self.
There isn't a true resolution in this story because the man fails to successfully build a fire and in the end, he panics and ends up freezing to death in the snow.
There is indirect characterization in this story. The author doesn't explicitly tell us how the man is. The man's character is revealed through his actions.
Setting was very important in this story because if the man wasn't in the freezing Yukon he wouldn't have had to build a fire in order to survive.
Pertinacity: If the man hadn't been so stubborn, he would have listened to the warnings presented to him and delayed his trip until the temperatures increased.