“Determinisim governs everything … The writer must study the inherited traits of individual character and the social condition of the time. Together, these elements determine the course of any action, the outcome of any life. Free will or self-determination is mostly an illusion, although chance is granted a role in human affairs. Still, even the effects of chance are obliterated in the inevitable course determined by the interaction of inherited character traits and the social environment.“
In “The Blue Hotel,” the Swede’s demise was caused by personality. He was very awkward and he needed alcohol to overcome this. Unfortunately, this caused him to be very violent and the members of the hotel turned on him. In the end his personality and the social environment he was thrown in determined his fate.
However, in “To Build A Fire,” the man’s social environment had nothing to do with his death. The man went out alone because he was greedy and wanted to get the fortune that came with gold even after he was warned not to go out alone. The weather conditions turned against him and the man wasn’t fit to survive the actual environment in the area so his stubborn and greedy personality is what caused him to be put in a bad situation but in the end the physical environment was too much for him which is was determined his fate.
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