This article reveals the alleged struggle against the metaphor that Kafka starts in light of, mainly, the last sentence of The Trial’s, chapter X. By establishing a dialogue with some interpreters and in order to realize a wider reading of the sentence, the metaphor is subjected to yield , from itself, and from its very frame of the Kafkian process. Josef K.’s “Die like a dog” is the end of all the process’s framework (from the beginning and with no way out). It shows that the “metaphor” is the universe that establishes a destined expectation in the impossibility to be other.