Gregor's Accomplishments Research Paper

Gregor reflects on how strenuous his career is. He strongly dislikes almost every aspect of his job: travelling all the time, worrying about the train

He is depressed of sacrificing himself for his entire family while his family is not doing any work but taking advantage of Gregor. Also, the story looks like Gregor’s confession about how he has been feeling like as being in his place but the biographical document explains that it is not a confession but an

In the novel, the main character, Gregor, is the sole provider for his family. Before his metamorphosis into a beetle, Gregor works as a traveling salesman working excessive hours to support his mother, father, and sister. Although “[Gregor] earns enough money to meet the expenses of his family through his wages as a traveling salesman,” he despises his job. Gregor states that “If [he] didn't have [his] parents to think about [he’d] have given his notice a long time ago,” (Kafka 26) yet Gregor continues to support his ungrateful family. Meanwhile, no one else in the Samsa family works to help support the household. Gregor’s pressure to carry his family’s financial matters prevents him from leaving his job and finding

     Throughout the story there is a metamorphosis that is taking place in his home. He has traded places with the family and is now living the life they had previously embelished in. His father begins to work along with his sister and his mother must now work and do the cooking and cleaning. Gregor on the other hand does nothing but daydream, crawl, and nap through his days. One ironic statement from his sister “He must go, if this were Gregor he would have realized long ago human beings can’t live with such a creature, he’d have gone away one his own accord. This creature persecutes us, drives away our lodgers, obviously wants the whole apartment to himself, and would have us all sleep in the gutter.” How selfish of her, had he not taken care of them and he was not the only one working

Isolation not only changes the personalities of Gregor and his family, but also it changes the role and duties Gregor plays in his family. Before the metamorphosis, Gregor worked alone to provide for the entire family. For example, in the beginning, before the transformation, he says, “But besides that, the money Gregor had brought home every month he had kept only a few dollars for himself” (4). This shows Gregor’s selfishness and his family’s heavy dependency on his income. It establishes the fact that Gregor’s family’s loyalty to Gregor was strong because the family depended on Gregor for their own survival, and shows how they betrayed him by disregarding him after he became an insect. The isolation of Gregor caused by the transformation not only affects Gregor’s role in the family, but also changes the role of Mr. Samsa. Mr. Samsa originally told by Gregor: ”Now his father was still healthy, certainly. But he was an old man who had not worked for the past five years and who in any case could not be expected to undertake that much” (17). This shows how irresponsible Mr. Samsa acted for his family in the beginning. Mr. Samsa, a man in his 50s, blamed his unemployment on anxiety and depression from a past failed business. Mr. Samsa changes his role as the useless drag to the provider of the family, and even obtains a new job as a bank manager.

Gregor’s role in his family characterizes him as an altruistic individual whose nature made him ignorant to his family’s manipulation. Gregor endures most of his hardships without complaint and puts the needs of his family firmly above his own. Upon realizing his transformation at the beginning of the novella, his first thoughts were not of alarm but of great concern about being late to work because it is his only means of taking care of his family (Kafka 6). After his father’s business failed, Gregor “work[ed] with special ardor” (27) doing laborious work as a traveling salesman, not only to “pay off [his] parents’ debt”(4), but to also spend what little money he has to give Grete the opportunity to perform violin professionally (26). With all these responsibilities, it’s inevitable for Gregor to be under great stress, which can infer that Gregor’s transformation is a result of his willful desire to escape the pressures his overburdened life. Gregor struggled between remaining a steadfast provider or following his desire for independence, however, his metamorphosis freed him from a job he detests. Now that it is impossible for Gregor to work, Mr.Samsa reveals that “he possessed more money than Gregor knew about” (#). This is a significant event where Kafka uses the motif of betrayal to emphasize the corruption in familial infrastructure represented through Gregor’s sacrifice and interaction with his family, as well as to socially comment about how people in society use

The story is very sad and realistic, some of the things that are related in Kafka's story can be found in modern families today. Gregor was a man who sacrifices himself working to pay his father's debts, instead off on his own where he could prospered. Gregor never was recognized by his family of all the efforts that he did, he was taken for granted and he was

From the onset of the reader’s introduction to Gregor, the reader is introduced to the tension between himself and his job as well as his lack of satisfaction in his work. As a lower-class citizen, he is a wage slave to the whims of his boss. Throughout the short story, Gregor refers to his job as “torture,” “miserable”

It was felt as if it was unspoken that Gregor would work. As he continued to work he started to earn more money and then he was able to support the family. The more money he earned, the more stress he took on which is part of his mentally collapse which was partly his own

The author's main claim is the choices Gregor made when faced difficult circumstances; however, and despite adversity, confusion, and chaos, Franz Kafka explains Gregor did not give up and evidently he was going to work his way up.

With all of Gregor dedication in helping his family and at work, he has not once been praised or rewarded. His family and coworker take his dedication for granted, therefore causing selfishness within them. Gregor’s family selfishness really showed when Gregor

What defines a hero? A person can be deemed a hero through their characteristics, such as their traits they obtain or the actions they do on a daily basis. I believe a true hero should be able to stand-out and be a role model for everyone who is upon observation of them. A hero does not have to be perfect, but they do have to have a positive influence and set an example for everyone. Conor McGregor displays attributes of bravery, perseverance, and relentlessness, which is why he represents a hero.

1. Gregor’s initial reaction to his transformation, more specifically his worrying about missing the train and dwelling on the hardships of his job, reveals the extent to which Gregor’s own self-identity and way of life is dependent on his work. While most people would probably be horrified to find themselves transformed into a bug, Gregor instantly thinks of his job because that is what comprises Gregor’s identify and without his job he has no purpose or worth in his society. As Gregor contemplates his future, he thinks to himself, “Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to him [his boss] – another five or six years I suppose – that’s definitely what I’ll do. That’s when I’ll make the big change” (Kafka 8).

The time prior to the genesis of the story tell Gregor's character as a valuable worker, a dutiful son, and doomed dreamer. He begins to represent for the reader the existentialist reality that all God's creatures must work and must die. For Gregor, he believes his transformation to be a simple barrier to his everyday cross of labor, but to the rest of society, reflected in the microcosm of his family, he is a problem without a solution. Kafka seems to suggest through Gregor's experiences that an individual's place in life cannot undergo change without the changing or the reactions of those surrounding the individual. He attempts to recreate the failures of family and the social confines restricting personal reality as he illustrates the gradual transformation which lends the title. It is important to remember that the alteration of Gregor's physical appearance took only one night, but the experience of The Metamorphosis required a great deal more.

Throughout the novella, Gregor’s deeply rooted sense of guilt transitions from having the power to drive his actions to merely plaguing his thoughts. Immediately after his transformation, Gregor reveals that he has to “deal with the problems of traveling, the worries about train connections, irregular bad food, temporary and constantly changing human relationships…” (Kafka 4), in his daily work. Although he appears to hate his job, Gregor does not quit, as he has both intrinsic motivation to provide and extrinsic pressure from his family to keep them afloat. Rather than reflecting on his feelings and emotional baggage attached to his job, Gregor focuses on grievances set in reality, and allows this to occupy his conscious mind. After Gregor’s transformation, his