“The Metamorphosis,” a novel written by Franz Kafka in the early 20th century is a bizarre story of a man, waking up and somehow bizarrely turning into an insect type creature. The story is so bizarre it is hard to even depict the message Kafka wants the audience to know. I trying to discern Kafka’s message I made the comparison to the novel “Frankenstein”. In both novels new creature were created – and in both novels we don’t know how they were created. I believe that there is significance to this fact, because just as we learned that Mary Shelly didn’t want the creation of Frankenstein to take away from the true meaning of the book, so too Kafka didn’t want the creation of Samsa to take away from the message. What Kafka is really trying to say in the novel is that change can happen to all of us, and how we, as well as our peers respond to that change may differ. We see this right from the start when Samsa boss, and parents are outside his house, looking to see if anything happened to him. Initially everyone responds differently, his boss runs away, his mother faints, and his father pushes him back into the house. He then finds out the next day that his sister as accepted the fact he has changed and begins to help him. The fictional aspect of this book is extraordinary and the multitude of holes in the plot allow it to be highly interpretable in different ways.