Frankenstein 21.

“… They possessed a delightful house and every luxury…” (Shelley 116)

Shelley is stating how true it is that when you have absolutely nothing, just having something makes you completely rich. Frankenstein’s creation had been living in complete solitude since he was ‘born’, he had nothing and he had no one to turn to. He had been living in the forest on the cold, hard, unwelcoming ground. When he saw what the old man and his children had, though they were very low class on the social charts, he thought that they had everything; ‘one mans trash is another mans treasure.”