xperienced in the arctic climate, London writes, "The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not the significances"(755). What London is saying is that this individual only takes things for what they are. He does not understand the significance of what they are. The man realizes that it is very cold outside, but he does not make the association of the danger that the weather poses to his life. Even the dog knew that the cold was dangerous. The text reads, "It knows that it was no time for traveling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by the man's judgment" (756). The freezing saliva, unused sled trail, frosting cheeks, and the dog's instinctual reluctance to go on are all signs that
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