During the eighteen years of my life I have read many interesting stories. Some stories are more captivating than others. Also, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka were not at the top of my list. In my opinion, the stories attracted attention because of the way the author made his characters react and respond to the suspense and eeriness in some parts of the climax of the stories. For example, in “A Rose For Emily” the ladies in the community said “So we didn't say she was crazy. We believed he had to” (Faulkner 81) These two lines were said about Emily after people found out about the death of Emily's father and knew that she kept his body inside her house because she couldn't let go of her father. The strange thing is that they didn't think it was strange at all. Plus, these two stories feel just like every other story I've read by other authors. However, as I began to delve into the concepts and ironies, the stories reveal an aspect of how the characters progress and why they progress the way they do throughout the story. On the other hand, not only did I start to build interest in them, but I realized how similar they were in many unusual ways. “A Rose For Emily” and “Metamorphosis” develop a similar climax to each other because they both have unpredictable events, rare responses to those events, a theme that connects the theme, and a twist to an unpredictable ending. To begin with, what caught my attention was the way both authors, Faulkner and Kafka, gave passages unpredictable events and another meaning to the characters. In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner said “When his… center of the paper… is more descriptive than Emily's. Kafka described how Gregor's death occurred peacefully, even though he died of starvation. Furthermore Kafka explained how Mr. Samsa took the death of his son. Mr. Samsa said "Good, now we can thank God." This not only describes their happiness over Gregor's death, but describes the relief they felt in their lives after Gregor's transformation. To conclude, I'm happy to have looked deeper into these two stories. They made me face reality and showed me that things don't always go as we would like and that life always brings surprises that turn our lives upside down. I didn't like the ending of the story of Kafka's "Metamorphoses" because I would have liked to see him take revenge on those who didn't treat him as he should have, but this also surprised me that the story didn't take a turn that was destined to end like this.