Poe prefers that people have a logical and set progress in their writing. They must be a good writer to write.
King says good writers are made, and he uses imagination to unfold his works and encourages other writers to just keep writing and do the same.
The central conflict and its resolution in "To Build a Fire" is:
c. The man is in conflict with the extreme weather; the conflict ends when the man freezes to death.
Even though the man had conflicts with other characters in the short story, their conflicts arise from the central conflict of man needing to learn how to build a fire in order to keep warm amidst the extremely cold weather.
Mae and Winnie are both girls, Mae is more free (she can go anywhere she wants to go,) and Mae is immortal. Winnie has to stay home listening to her mother.
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