Almost Grinning

" A grin was on the face of the monster, he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife." - pg 145

The monster has a very recognizable pattern. He always seems to hang around after a kill. He is either peeking in a window, or lurking in shadows, or in some form just waiting for Victor to show up and see his latest kill. Every time this happens, the author describes the monster as "almost grinning" or "seemed to grin" or "seemed to jeer". It reminded me of the first time the monster met Victor on the night of his creation. He stood over Frankenstein's bed and "tried to smile". It seems that, even though he has being trying since his birth, the monster never learned how to smile. Again and again he tries; always meeting Victor at the crime scene with some sort of grimace on his face. The misery and misfortunes the monster experienced are what I believe to be the cause of his almost-smile. He never was happy, ever. So his version of happiness, revenge, appears physically to Victor as ugly as it really is.