To Build a Fire

How much time passes in this story?

Setting tells time and place.

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The setting is in the Yukon. It is in the depths of winter. The time span in the story is only a day. I don't think it is quite dark before the man freezes to death. One of the themes has to do with the man's stubbornness for not making camp.

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