Although Where the Wild Things Are, is not a particularly metafictional text, a couple of seems alude to Max's constructedness. Early in the book, he is seen standing on books, which could symbolicly represent the way he is fictional character who only exists within the pages of a book. In another, scene, Max looks directly at the reader, working much like an intrusive narrator, at once drawing the reader closer into the story, and exposing the the way the story is created.