Have you ever experienced a time when you just wanted to express your problems, thoughts and opinions about your life, but succumb to the fact that even the act of speaking out will not be enough do you do justice or help solve problems? Or have you ever felt a moment where you wanted to express how you feel, but instead you bit your tongue to keep your comments from portraying you in a negative light, or that your truth would lead people, those who count, to be in a lot of suffering? This was the case of Franz Kafka; his inability to physically express his opinions to his family in reality leads him to intellectually pursue his thoughts and relationships in the imagination, his writings, as shown in his short story "Metamorphosis". Due to Kafka's background and the nature of his society in early 20th century Prague, his only and primary means of expressing his thoughts was to put them down on paper. As a result, Kafka uses these two elements to transform his inner thoughts into fiction. Although his stories are classified as fiction, beyond his contextual interpretation, his stories are a reflection of his life. Needless to say, the most apparent factors that shine through in “Metamorphosis” are Kafka’s life relationship with his family and how he viewed himself within that dynamic. Therefore, we can hint that the protagonist Gregor Samsa in “Metamorphosis” may well be the incarnation of Kafka himself. However, because the short story was written in a fictional form, where one takes the impossible from reality and makes it possible, it can be difficult to relate the interaction between the characters to Kafka's real-life relationship with his family . Nevertheless, through the prism of biographical criticism in the analysis of “Metam...... middle of paper ......e he heard. Additionally, it allows us, the readers, to better understand the extraordinary element of Gregor's transformation as the personification of his creative spirit rejected by his family. Works Cited1. Eikhenbaum, Boris. “The theory of the Forma method”. Literature: craft and voice. 2nd ed. Nicolas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. 1568-1569. Print2. Friedländer, Saul. Franz Kafka: the poet of shame and guilt. New Haven: Yale UP, 2013. Print.3. Guerin, Wilfred L., Earle G. Labor, Lee Morgan, and John R. Willingham. A handbook of critical approaches to literature. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. 5-6. Print.4. Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Writings and Journals. London: Heinemann Octopus, 1976. Print.5. Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis. Trans. David Wyllie. Unknown publication, 2002. March 10, 2014 < http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5200. >