Answer:
The element that makes Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" an absurdist story is:
b. the absence of a reason for Gregor's transformation into an insect
Step-by-step explanation:
Looked from a very regular/general point of view, this story is the perfect representation of an absurdist story. Because the main character has not found any meaning in his life. He also doesn't fight to find it and is very conformist. His family also is very much like that, because they accept the fact that he is becoming an insect. Nevertheless, if you analyze it from a psychoanalytic point of view you could find a meaning to it.