In the book to build a fire, the man vs. himself, he has lost. He tired to go out to -50 degree weather but that was something he could not do. As he was getting hypothermia the M.C. couldn’t do anything about it. He was lost out in the wilderness with no one. He thought he could go by himself but he could not and that’s his fault. He know is near death and no one knows, besides the dog that had tagged alone with him from the beginning. He is fighting against himself and is losing. And in the end he lost the fight because he slowly froze to death and died.