How to Make a MonsterConveyed as a bleak first person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, Casanova Frankenstein reveals how real life experience shaped his hard bitten, survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the stifling atmosphere of the Lutheran school on the South Side of Chicago, racial segregation, unapproachable girls, and a home life consisting of an emotionally distant and unsupportive mother and an