I believe that the use and mention of metaphysics in Jorge Borges's The Garden of Forking Paths and Donald Barthelme's Snow White serves to highlight the similarities between metaphysics and metafiction. I believe both authors incorporated metaphysics to draw parallels with reflections on the mechanisms of creation and comparison of literature and how we perceive and reflect on the nature of reality. I believe that literature can be interpreted just like any object in the real world, and is dynamic and changing depending on interpretations. An author can integrate his own interpretations into his own text, into the reality he has created. Metaphysics and metafiction are inherently similar concepts, and both novels were intended to demonstrate this idea, emphasizing that just as realities in the real world can be altered, so too can a known story change. Both stories are taken in different time periods. , but generally in the past. Snow White by Donald Barthelme is a modern version of the Brothers Grim fairy tale. In the novel Snow White is characterized quite similarly to herself. At first, the description “Hair as black as ebony, skin as white as snow” (Barthelme 4)”, shows how similar she appears, but this version of Snow White has its differences. She is older and as such her height reflects this change and she does not act as innocently as in the fairy tale. Despite the similarities and differences, it was intentional that the author chose to create Snow White this way, instead of a completely different character who was meant to symbolize Snow White. It was also intended that some characters would be placed in similar roles, such as how Jane represents the stepmother from... half the knowledge... of the paper, or ideologies change the way I see the world, and I continue to change as time goes by. Just as a story isn't exactly set in stone, values ​​change and stories are told in a new light. I think it's important to see how novels can attract readers, draw them into a reality similar to the one we live in. The idea of ​​metafiction is similar to metaphysics. Is our reality just like a novel, created by us and shaped to our liking, or dismay? I think both Barthelme and Borges intended to show that this could actually be true, as the stories we have told as fairy tales can be modernized and the events can be interpreted in multiple ways. Works Cited Barthelme, Donald. Snow White. New York: Athenaeum, 1967. Print. Borges, Jorge Luis. "The garden of forking paths." Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. Augmented ed. New York: New Directions Pub. Corp., 1964. 19-29. Press.