Point of View in "To Build a Fire"
"To Build a Fire" is told using the third-person point of view. The narrator is an outsider who tells the reader a story about the main character. London establishes this point of view right from the beginning of the story, saying, “when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank.” The outsider narrator sets the stage by introducing the setting and referring to the main character as “the man.” Later, in the story, the narrator also refers to the man using the pronoun “he.”