In Herman Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener: a tale of Wall Street", Robert Walser’s "Helbling's Story" and Franz Kafka’s "The Metamorphosis" the main character is depicted as being a completely ordinary person, who is for some reason or another trust into a situation most unnatural, whether it be the presence of an odd person, the affect of emotions on one’s life, or some inhuman horror. This basis for plot seems rather easy to follow, but when all short works are compared they all stand alone and far apart as being completely different in their setting, events, and plot progression. Where it may make for an interesting reading, it lacks the weight of a proper tale.
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