I did not like “To Build a Fire.” A really depressing story.
I didn’t like it either. Maybe that’s not the point. It left an impression.
I really like it, yes it made an impression. Always have a plan, and realize any plan can go south, have a plan when the plan goes South. Sometimes no matter your best efforts things do not work out and if you can’t rely on yourself there is no help. A more pure or precise distillation of self reliance, only on ones’self I have not read.