Sometimes I shouldn't use words

Well we can definitely agree that Giant Dawn and Metamorphosis aren’t in the same story-telling league and that the stories they’re telling are (hopefully) very different :-) All I do see is a similarity in the way they’re being told, the thing about the devil being in the details. For much of his story Kafka conveys how Gregor is feeling not by talking about the emotions but by describing the physical and behavioural changes in great detail, how Gregor hides himself when people come in or enjoys hanging from the ceiling. The part I like about Giant Dawn isn’t so much the dialogue, it’s looking at the pictures - there’s something inherently humorous (to me) about her being so much bigger than everything around her and the way that has to be worked around. Not laugh out loud funny, just a little smiley and then when you think about it rather sad. Also I’m not that invested in Dawn as a character and am very invested in Buffy, which probably skews my perspective. I can certainly see that considered as a story about Dawn it’s frustrating although not (according to my interpretation of Dawn) out of character.