Hints and glitches

Surprise, Samuel Taylor Coleridge concluded, is not nearly as satisfying as expectation (meaning: if we have been led to expect something, we feel satisfaction when it occurs.)

How does Kafka play with foreshadowing to convey his theme of human alienation?

On story-telling

Aristotle stated that every story must have a beginning (before which nothing matters), a middle and an end (after which nothing matters). Is The Metamorphosis one such story? If so, how and if not, why not?