Kafka's Use of Lightness

Lightness in Kafka: How does Kafka lighten each of these stories? How is reality dealt with? What animates these stories (pushes them forward, provides conflict and finally resolution?) How does the title impact our reading of the story? In “Unhappiness,” what does one make of the girl/ghost? In defining how Kafka treats reality in his story “Unhappiness,” it is important to remember the complementary relationship that exists between lightness and weight, one cannot exist …

…an unknown to be explored. The truth of all concepts under the umbrella of life and reality, is to be reached by approaching each as the result of its complementary components of lightness and weight. Every day-to-day situation can be better understood by viewing them as having a component of reality and fantasy, seriousness and ridiculousness or truth and falsehood to remind us all of the non-objectivity of the mind and the pointlessness of worry.