Grizzly Man seems like a good counterpoint to Jack London’s “To Build A Fire”: in both, the protagonist makes fatal misjudgments about reality—London’s story is mostly about Nature as the other (the dog is mostly a neutral observer), and Grizzly Man is the mirror about animals. They’re even almost symmetrical in time & place: the Yukon might as well be Alaska, and “To Build A Fire”’s 2 versions roughly bracket 100 years before Treadwell’s death & Herzog’s documentary.
Grizzly Man seems like a good counterpoint to Jack London’s “To Build A Fire”: in both, the protagonist makes fatal misjudgments about reality—London’s story is mostly about Nature as the other (the dog is mostly a neutral observer), and Grizzly Man is the mirror about animals. They’re even almost symmetrical in time & place: the Yukon might as well be Alaska, and “To Build A Fire”’s 2 versions roughly bracket 100 years before Treadwell’s death & Herzog’s documentary.