The biggest question one is left with is why would Frankenstein do this to himself and his family, but this question can be answered by looking at all of his flaws. Griffith does a great job illustrating Victor's flaws that Shelley seemed to hide with the monster's presence. The audience may think that the monster caused all the deaths, which is true for the most part, but he wouldn't have been so bad if Victor had taken care of him from the start. The novella is classified as gothic fiction, horror fiction, and soft science fiction, all very real, but this story also includes Victor's coming of age. An inexperienced reader may not grasp this theme from this confusing work of fiction, but after reading Griffith's interpretation and analyzing the book, it becomes clear that as the monster learns and grows, so does Victor, and he realizes that his actions were