Thoughts about the absurd and what it is about have a lot to do with the struggle of why things happen to people. Why do bad things happen to good people and good things to bad people? Because the world has no rules of fairness. It exists as it is, not as we would like. This can be seen in Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground: During his last year at school, he had inherited about two hundred serfs and, since almost all of us were poor, he had begun to boast. He was an extremely rude fellow... he suddenly declared that no girl in his village would escape his attention, that it was his droit de seigneur, and if the peasants dared to protest, he would have them all whipped. (Dostoevsky 669)Dostoevsky illustrates that good things happen to bad people in this section of his story. Zverkov is obviously not a good person; with his intentions to impose himself on all his slaves when they get married. Considering this fact that he is not good should deny him the gifts of nature, yet he is given two hundred servants to lord over. The opposite is seen in The Metamorphosis with Gregor: she understood that the sight of herself was still unbearable to her and would continue to be unbearable to her, and that she probably had to control herself so as not to escape that sight of that small portion of her body peeking out from underneath the sofa. One day, to save her from that too, he moved the tablecloth to the sofa - it took four hours of work - and arranged it so that he was completely covered by it (Kafka 226)Gregor takes care of his family and wants only the best for his sister. He was saving money from his small salary; depriving oneself of the typical joys of life. So he could… middle of paper… World Literature. Ed. Pietro Simone. Trans. Michael R. Katz. 3rd. vol. E. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2012. 635-708. Print.Escher, MC Drawing hands. Lithograph by MC Escher Company BV.Kafka, Franz. "The Metamorphosis." Norton Anthology of World Literature. Ed. Pietro Simone. Trans. Michael Hoffmann. 3rd. vol. F. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 2012. 210-238. Print. Pirandello, Luigi. "Six characters in search of an author." The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Ed. Pietro Simone. Trans. John Linstrum. 3rd. vol. F. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. 263-303. Print.WW Norton & Company Inc. Norton Anthology of World Literature. Ed. Pietro Simone. 3rd. vol. E. New York: WW Norton & Company Inc., 2012. Print.—. Norton Anthology of World Literature. Ed. Pietro Simone. 3rd. vol. F. New York: WW Norton & Company Inc., 2012. Print.