When playing characters in novels, readers perceive the characters from the impressions the author provides to the writers. In the novels In the Grass by Marcel Proust and The Trial by Franz Kafka the characters Albertine and Josef K. can be seen from many different perspectives. Proust portrays Albertine as a multifaceted and unpredictable character, but when she distances herself from the narrator's thoughts she can appear in a completely different light. Kafka's main character, Josef K., can be seen as an innocent victim or as someone who deserves accusation. Writers who create a plot that allows readers to take away from it what they want, like Proust and Kafka, are the best writers (in my opinion), allowing readers to take away from the novel and the characters what they want. Below I provide an argument based on personal perspectives, interpretations and critical evaluations as to why Albertine can be seen in a different light, exactly the opposite of the distorted assumptions that the narrator has provided to readers and an in-depth analysis of why where Josef K. is an innocent victim of the Court. Marcel Proust writes his novel Within A Budding Grove through the lens of the narrator. The narrator's perceptions make Albertine appear to be a hateful, jealous, unpredictable, "chubby", annoying girl, comparing her to a "runaway, and no expression of her worth can be complete unless preceded by such a symbol as that which physics denotes speed" (WABG, 39). For readers Albertine is a mystery, we never really get a sense of Marcel's true feelings for her, she exposes readers to her innermost thoughts and anguish, but it is unclear whether Marcel's true feelings are motivated from the obsession with her lesbian tastes, from jealousy.... .. middle of the paper ......nt, sinner or saint: it all depends on the reader and how we decide to analyze the information provided by the author. Works Cited.(nd). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved December 8, 2013, from BrainyQuote.com website: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/phaedrus391807.htmlHeidsieck, Arnold. "Chapter 6." The intellectual contexts of Kafka's narrative: philosophy, law, religion. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994. Page No. Print.Moncur, Michael. “Quote Details: (Cynical) Quotes by Michael Moncur.” The quotes page. Michael and Laura Moncur, November 1994. Web. 08 December 2013. Proust, Marcel. Inside a grassy grove. New York: Modern Library, 1992. Print.Kafka, Franz. "The problem of our laws". The fundamental Kafka. New York: Washington Square, 1979. Page no. Print.Kafka, Franz. The process. [Sl]: Schocken, 1999. Print.