The third person omniscient point of view affects "To Build a Fire", by Jack London, because It offers insight to the man's transformation from someone who considers himself superior to nature to someone who is humbled by it.
The point of view is a literary technique that the writer uses to tell the story. In this case, it is the third person omniscient point of view. The story is told by an outsider. The narrator uses "the man" or "he" to refer to the protagonist that is confronted with nature in a place that reaches fifty-five degrees below zero. He is a resourceful man but, because of his arrogance, he underestimates the power of nature.
