In the metamorphosis, kafka shows us how genres can overlap, making fiction seem like a more ( versatile, concrete, psychological, or allegorical ) form of writing than it might otherwise be. while the story is ( historical, scientific, realistic, or modernist )in its character depictions, it’s based on the ( classical, fatalistic, modernistic, or surrealistic ) event of a man changing into an insect. gregor’s transformation into an insect is also (realistic, allegorical, historical, or modernist ) , since it serves to symbolize the larger themes of the story, such as isolation and alienation.