Epilogue To Gregor's Metamorphosis

Gregor’s major transformation occurred not when he turned into a bug, but through the changes in his life. Gregor’s life before the changed into some sort of bug was like a bumble bee. He would go through life doing as others told him. In

Gregor maintains submissive personality and does not defend himself. Gregor’s physical change into a bug is the only aspect of him that changes. Gregor continuously allows himself to be abused. Upon Gregor’s transformation, he is unable to go to work. Therefore, the chief clerk visits Gregor to force him to come to work. Gregor remained locked in his room and would not leave for work. So, the clerk became extremely impatient. The frustrated clerk divulges into a cruel and demoralizing speech. He maliciously accuses Gregor of hiding because of unethical involvement in cash receipts. Later, Gregor’s family and the clerk become restless and want to see Gregor. The door to Gregor’s room is unlocked to open and reveal Gregor in his insect form. Gregor’s family and the clerk react with horror. The clerk and Gregor’s mother run away from him in fear. Gregor’s father grabs a stick and a newspaper and dashes toward Gregor, herding Gregor back into his bedroom with prods and fierce language. Gregor injures himself badly while trying to fit back through the doorway. Gregor’s door is slammed shut behind him and he his left alone, frightened and injured, in his room. The events subsequent to Gregor’s transformation exhibit his passive nature. Clearly such passivity was not useful to Gregor.

When Gregor first turned into a bug, his sister Grete, showed him kindness by bringing him some food “She brought him, to test his taste, an entire selection, all spread out on a newspaper. There were old half-rotten vegetables, bones from the evening meal, covered with white sauce which had almost solidified, some raisins and almonds, cheese, which Gregor had declared inedible two days earlier, a slice of dry bread, a slice of salted bread smeared with butter… and out of delicacy of feeling, since she knew Gregor would not eat in front of her, she went away very quickly… Gregor could now make himself as comfortable as possible.” (Kafka 153) As the story progresses Grete becomes careless and no longer is sympathetic toward Gregor. In fact she hardly even feds him anymore “But even when the

He was very shocked by this change and couldn’t go to work and even tell his family about this. But his family soon came to know about his transformation into a big insect. They were surprised because they counted on him for the family’s income as he was the only source of money in the house. Gregor was transformed into an ultimate insect both psychologically and physically. This transformation into led to complete alienation which prevented him from working and providing his family with money. His transformation not only changed his life but also made his family’s economical condition bad. They used to have cooks and maids for household works but now they worked by their selves and also had people living in their house who paid them monthly rents. This shows how bad their economical condition had become.

Family is important, and because of this, people will often do what they can when their family is in trouble. However in Franz Kafka’s The metamorphosis, Gregor’s decision to step into the role of head of the family is what ultimately leads to his death. His role as head leads Gregor to sacrifice his life for his family, leads Gregor to become isolated, and creates a power struggle between Mr. Samsa and Gregor; these factors eventually cause Gregor to lose all desire for life, and cause his suicide.

Gregor woke up one morning noticing something strange. This so happened to be that he was a enormous bug. His family that he took care of did not know what to think of it so he just felt helpless. His sister is the only one that takes care of him and gives him rotted food, which he wanted. However his mother saw him on the wall and freaked out, and the father, thinking Gregor attacked his own mother, spin

In the beginning of the novella, Gregor undergoes a transformation. Many readers view his transformation as he turns into a bug because of the way Kafka describes Gregor. Kafka may have been undergoing a transformation of his own. Kafka dealt with many issues growing up such as self doubt, issues with his father, and eventually, health issues. Like Kafka, Gregor deals with issues with his father and within himself and begins to feel less and less like himself as the novella continues. He awakes from his sleep to ask himself, “What’s happened to me (Kafka, 3)?” With the conflicts Gregor has with his family, especially his father, he begins to feel unwanted and unappreciated. Gregor also feels that he is becoming less sensitive when that used to be one of his main traits as a human (Kafka, 24). Seeing that Gregor is losing his sensitivity, that shows that he is truly losing himself since he is losing one of his main traits. Feeling less like himself, Gregor becomes more distant with his close

The deterioration of Gregor's life was in part due to the ostracism associated with his being turned into a bug. Once his family found out what happened, they banished him to his room, and his parents could not even bear to look at him. Prior to his metamorphosis, Gregor was an integral part of the family. He provided the money by which the family survived. Yet as soon as he changed, he was labeled an outcast, who was useless to the family, and therefore not paid any attention. He felt this ostracism, and it made him not want to continue on in life, he gave up because he felt unloved.

The story initially involves Gregor’s physical appearance and his conscious awareness that he has become an insect. “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed” (505). Quite in denial, he does not appear to be very bothered by his transformation, and sees it as any other disturbance to his sleep, “what if I went back to sleep for a while, and forgot about all this nonsense?” (505). As the story progresses, Gregor seems focused on ordinary concerns like missing the early morning train, losing his meaningless and unfulfilling job as a traveling salesman, or his family’s unstable financial situation. His life is completely consumed with work and his family’s needs. Undergoing more physical changes, Gregor’s normal human voice turns into that of a bug, which makes it difficult for him to communicate with his family or his manager, who says, “that was the voice of an animal” (511). His words were no longer comprehensible. Once he was able to open his bedroom door, revealing himself as an insect to the others did not ensue ideally. Gregor’s mother, father, sister, and manager all stood shocked, and ran away in horror at the sight. Ironically, one of the first things that Gregor sees outside the bedroom is a photograph of himself from his period in the army as a lieutenant, “his hand on his sabre, smiling confidently, the posture and uniform

The novella, The Metamorphosis, follows the transformation of a character into a vermin that is then an outcast from society and even from his family. Gregor’s transformation was used in order to further Gregor’s isolation and to show how society pushes away those that are different from the general population.

While Gregor has gone through a more physically based metamorphosis, his change to a bug is simply physical and has no effect on his emotional wellbeing. Near the end of the first sentence in the book, ' […] he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. ' It is shown that he has been turned into a bug, plain and simple. What is shown later on in the book further proves the point that his change is only physical. An example is this, 'He remembered his family with deep feeling and love.' Gregor's family is clearly very important to him and he has a lot of emotion towards them, primarily love. Emotions like love are not associated with bugs, rather feelings of disgust and hate are most commonly associated with them.

In Franz Kafka’s book, The Metamorphosis, the main character, Gregor, loses his ability to communicate with those around him. Without his ability to communicate, Gregor loses control of his life and his untamable future. The reader first sees this when the family is trying to get Gregor to open his door. The family doesn’t seem to understand Gregor when they try to address him about why he missed his train. Gregor is trying to answer them, but they seem worried still, “He made an effort with the most careful articulation and by inserting long pauses between the individual words to remove everything remarkable from his voice. His father turned back to his breakfast. However, the sister whispered, ‘Gregor, open the door, I beg you.’” (8). It

When Gregor inexplicably becomes an insect his family is primarily worried about how this will affect them, and their financial security. The morning Gregor awakes as a ‘monstrous vermin' is the first day he has missed work in five years; his family's immediate concern is for Gregor's job. His father begins to admonish him before he can even drag himself out of bed. When Gregor hears his sister crying at his door he thinks, "Why was she crying?? Because he was in danger of losing his job and then his boss would dun their parents for his old claims?" This is very significant to their relationship; he considers himself close to his sister, but feels her emotion spent on him is related to money. Gregor has been the sole breadwinner for years; working at a job he abhors only to pay his fathers debts. The family leads an extremely comfortable life of leisure; the father sits at the kitchen table and reads all day, the sister wears the best clothes and amuses herself by playing the violin, and all even take a mid-day nap. Gregor is extremely pleased and proud to provide them with this lifestyle; however, his generosity is met with resentment by his father and indifference by his sister and mother. Once the family grew accustomed to this lifestyle they no longer felt the need to be grateful, "they had grown used to it, they accepted the money, but no particularly warm feelings were generated any longer." At one point Gregor is deeply

“Go to college”, “go to bed’, “stop being so weird”. Demands from society are a constant that will constantly breath down your neck. Gregor is a gargantuan ball of stress who always has a demand to be fulfilling whether it be work, family, or money. All of these will pile on causing Gregor to morph into a bug. Demands like these represent what the stresses of society can do on most individuals, not every person could be affected like this but it's possible for the majority.

He’s lost his humanity physically, yet he’s still mentally as human as any of his family members, which is hard for them to see. His conversion from man to insect disgusts his family and his relationship with them, which can be represented by his fluctuation of hunger/appetite, gets worse as they are horrified by his appearance. When he first wakes up, “Gregor really felt quite well, apart from a drowsiness that was utterly superfluous after such a long sleep, and he was even unusually hungry” (91). His hunger symbolizes his wanting to be loved by his family, and since they haven’t seen him in bug-form at this point, he doesn’t expect anything to be unusual about their relationship. Later on, he discovers that Grete has left him food outside his door, “But soon in disappointment he withdrew…he did not like the milk either, although milk had been his favorite drink and that was certainly why his sister had set it there for him, indeed it was almost with repulsion that he turned away from the basin and crawled back to the middle of the room” (105).