The perspective of the natural world can be indifferent or beneficial, through life and death. It all depends on the point of view of the person interacting with nature. In the works presented, in the eyes of man (in life and death) nature is indifferent towards his life; In contrast, women see nature as a more benevolent force of benevolence. Perhaps this could be explained by the different purpose of men and women in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Women were even called the "fairer sex" and were expected to be generally kinder. They grew up weaned on craftsmanship and care, not prepared for any serious work. Men, however, had the task of protecting and guarding, also given their hunting and supply tasks. As boys they went around twisting the sea waves into sharp, angry points, nature is not kind to men in danger. But "She did not then seem cruel to [them], nor benevolent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, absolutely indifferent" (1003). Since their situation did not bode well, the men on the boat did not. They see nothing around them with the light seen in Jewett's most romantic piece. Instead they wander around, stubbornly fighting the waters rather than working with them to get back to shore. In this life nature does not provide, but simply carries out its tasks without concern for the actions of the little boats full of little men. They almost seem to argue with the water, and hurl themselves at the birds that fly by. They are in competition with their surroundings, and in war with nature, man always loses. The conflicting mannerisms of men of the past may have played a role in their violent opposition to respecting the rules of nature. In Jack London's The Law of Life, the protagonist explains that “Nature was not kind to the flesh concrete thing called individual... Nature did not care." (1044). Not only does he argue this, but also that the rule of nature is that everyone must die. However, the fact that he gives nature a set of rules shows that he is trying to constrain and understand it once again to frame nature, controlling it and forcing it into a set of rules that he can understand seemingly instinctive drive to subdue the things around him hinders man's progress perhaps because he is not taught another way, but instead is shown nature as a force to contend with as a child, or perhaps it is that the particular work champions writings presented from 1860 onwards were partial to women, but yet only men seem to share this perspective by working with what they are given, or in this case, trying to create their own life, man sadly reflects on how nature he's taking that life that she gave him