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Does The Dog's Survival In 'To Build A Fire' By Jack London?

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In “To Build a Fire”, author Jack London enhances Darwinistic doctrines that survival of the fittest is dominant in all forms of life and ridicules the idea that we alone determine the future through free will. The creatures that are best able to adapt will outlive those who cannot and will survive the hostile trials of natural selection. The survival of the dog rather than the man displays the dog’s ability to learn and use what he has learned to accommodate according to the situation. While the dog longed for fire because he “had learned about fire” the man saw fire as a burden because “it meant delay [and] he would be forced to stop”. This demonstrates the dog’s ability to identify when it is not safe to travel, accelerating his change
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