Mood Loneliness In Jack London's To Build A Fire

Jack London’s short story “To Build a Fire” is an illustration of the mood loneliness. This mood is conveyed throughout the story by the dark and gloomy setting of the Yukon in the extreme cold temperatures. When the man is walking along the Yukon trail he stops at the top of the hill and examines the darkness in the sky, “there seemed to be an indescribable darkness over the face of things. That was because the sun was absent from the sky” (London, 64). The image of darkness canvassing the surface of everything displays the absence of the setting around him, adding to the effect of the man being isolated and secluded, “darkness over the face of things”. Also the fact that the sun was absent from the sky adds to the absence of scenery