The biggest question anyone can ask is why Frankenstein would do this to himself and his family, but that can be answered by examining all of his flaws . Griffith does an excellent job of illustrating the flaws in Victor that Shelley seemed to cover up with the presence of the monster. The audience is left to think that the monster caused all the deaths, which is true for the most part, but he wouldn't have been so evil if Victor had taken care of him from the start. The short story is categorized as gothic fiction, horror fiction, and soft science fiction, all of which are very real, but this story also encompasses Victor's coming of age. An inexperienced reader may not pick up on this theme in this messy work of fiction, but after reading Griffith's point of view and analyzing the book, it becomes clear that as the monster learns and grows, so does Victor, and he realizes that his actions were