Mr Samsa In The Metamorphosis

His boss tells him that he is causing his parents unnecessary worry, but his parents are not worried at all or they would have busted into his room to see if he was okay. Whilst in the middle of all of this Gregor is starting to get scared of what the change is bringing into his life and causing unnecessary worry. In chapter 2, Grete brings in food for Gregor and for a change he is being treated somewhat correct and they notice he has became a full time crawler. This causes the family to question what he is doing is not human and they are starting to fear his new abilities as a “bug”. As an example, his mother and Grete take out the furniture to give him more room to crawl. Losing all faith in Gregor they take the furniture out because the fear is too great they may never get their son back and they have to accept the fact Gregor is a nasty vermin.

They are terrified of Gregor, and try to have as little interaction as they can with him as even, “the sight of him is repulsive to [Greta]” and the rest of the family (Kafka 28). However, as the Samsa’s adapt to Gregor's metamorphosis, they adjust their lives accordingly. Once lazy and unproductive depending on Gregor, the Samsa’s learn how to take care of themselves. Mr. Samsa and Greta start working to support the family and even hire a maid to feed and handle Gregor. Gregor’s metamorphosis pushes the Samsa family to become self-sufficient because they no longer have the option not

Thirdly, he suffers isolation from the physical world, which he is no longer able to participate in due to his presence and lack of mobility. Lastly, he suffers isolation from other people around him, especially his family. By the end even his sister, Grete, the most compassionate member of the family, explanations that they should stop thoughtful of the creature as the person they knew. She says that “the fact that we’ve believed it so long is the root of our trouble” (Kafka 48), which can be taken to mean that at some point Gregor stopped being a person not only because of his entrance but since of his non-conformist actions. The beating he receives from his father shows the extent of the cruelty he endures, though his father knows that “family duty compulsory the conquest of disgust and the use of endurance, nothing but patience” (Kafka 36). The tragedy is that this alienation ends up killing Gregor, who “dies not as a vermin, but as a human being thinking of his family”. The transformation is an indication of the breakdown of Gregor’s psyche and alienation within his self. The reader is not told how the transformation

     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

Although Gregor’s mother defends him throughout most of the story, she starts to have her doubts once she sees how difficult Gregor has made life for the rest of the family. Before his transformation into this vermin, Gregor and his mother have a stable relationship. But, after Gregor’s metamorphosis is complete it was not until after “two weeks…[that] his parents could not bring themselves to come into see him,” (Kafka 29). The strength of the mother’s unconditional love for Gregor has diminished over the process of his metamorphosis, so much so, that she is repulsed by Gregor’s presence and is afraid to even be in the same room as him. The mother further rejects the physical state of her son by “pointing to Gregor’s room,” (Kafka 40) and telling Grete to “close that door,” (Kafka 40), therefore leaving Gregor in isolated and in the dark. Gregor’s mother has now caught on to the idea of distancing herself from her deformed son by

Samsa’s letter to the bug clearly shows his disdain for him. In Metamorphosis, Kafka tries to convey this through Mr. Gregor and his family’s actions. For example, after Gregor sees Mr. Samsa with large shoe soles, he “could not risk standing up to him, aware as he had been from the very first day of his new life that his father believed only the severest measures suitable for dealing with him.” This implies that Mr. Samsa has been very assertive and intimidating towards Gregor, making Gregor feel threatened and inferior. In the letter, I also emphasized that Mr. Samsa no longer associated the bug with Gregor. Kafka shows this as well when Anna tells Mr. Samsa, “You must just try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor.” After this, Anna gets behind Mr. Samsa and he spreads his arms out to protect her, showing that he agrees with Anna’s assertion. Another theme Mr. Samsa is trying to convey in the letter is how money-oriented he is. In the beginning of the novella, as Gregor wakes up, he thinks, “I’ve saved enough money to pack back my parents’ debts to him-that should take another five or six years-I’ll do it.” The fact that Gregor has to work so diligently, as described, to pay off his parent’s debt shows how Mr. Samsa has embedded this urge to earn money to his son. All in all, Mr. Samsa, in his letter to the bug, was very harsh towards Gregor and this was how Kafka wrote him to be in

"’You, Gregor!’ cried his sister with raised fist and piercing eyes. These were the first words she had addressed directly to him since his metamorphosis.”(Kafka, 34). There are many different types of betrayal in one’s life, In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa was regularly betrayed after his transformation. One day, Gregor suddenly turned into a bug and his family turned their back on him and inevitably betrayed him. Gregor was not a family favorite, this is demonstrated by his family instantly treating him with disregard when he was struck with the unexpected hardship. Gregor cared for his family and made several sacrifices for them in turn made the betrayal even more difficult to cope with. Betrayal is a blatantly apparent theme shown throughout the novel. Betrayal is shown through society betraying Gregor due to him transforming into a bug, Gregor’s family betrayed him by not caring for him in a time of need, and Gregor betrayed himself by ending his own life for the good of the family.

Throughout the novella, “The Metamorphosis”, the audience notices two transformations. At the start of the story, Grete is the most understanding of Gregor and his situation. She makes sure that he is comfortable and healthy. On the other hand, Mr. Samsa is the least understanding. He wants nothing to do with him. However, as the story progresses, these two characters shift roles. After taking care of Gregor and seeing that his appearance is ruining their lives, Grete decides that he should no longer be a part of their family. In contrast, Mr. Samsa decides that they should give him a chance and treat him like the son that he has always been.

From the first moment that Gregor Samsa became an abomination to his last seconds on Earth, a struggle for him to retain his essential self was known. He had always been so considerate of his family and even as a bug would hide himself under the couch for their sanity. As the story progresses, Gregor becomes resentful of the way everyone treats him, especially with his sister, Grete Samsa, who stopped cleaning his room and forbade anyone from taking the

After Gregor mysteriously transforms into a bug overnight, his father does not want to deal with him. When Gregor first comes out of his room, Mr. Samsa’s only thoughts are to “return [Gregor] to his room as quickly as possible” (Kafka 18). Mr. Samsa could not bear to look at Gregor in his new form. During a squabble, Mr. Samsa “was determined to bombard [Gregor]. He had filled his pockets from the fruit bowls on the buffet and was now pitching one apple after another” (Kafka 37). From the very beginning, Gregor’s condition does not concern Mr. Samsa. He does not try to find a way to help him. Once Gregor’s physical form has drastically changed, Mr. Samsa deceives his own son by giving up on him, no longer trusting his son to maintain the household’s income. Mr. Samsa immediately disowns his son and becomes an antagonist by viewing Gregor as an intruder in his own home. The betrayal that Gregor suffers negatively affects him. Therefore, when Mr. Samsa makes it

In chapter one the families begins to grow ashamed of Gregor and try to hide him from others, like a mentally ill person. They refuse to allow the doctor and locksmith to come into the house because of their misfortune and lock him away in his room, slowly dehumanizing him. When Gregor is seen by outsiders, it is possible that Gregor really is not a bug because they recognize him as a person. For example, the Lodgers find Gregor amusing. However, Gregor’s father finds it more important that he hide Gregor from the lodgers, because Gregor is acting like a lunatic. Even the “old widow, who in her long life must have managed to survive the worst with the help of her body frame, had no real horror of Gregor” (Kafka 37). Gregor’s behavior is disgracing the Samsa name, because if other people see him it reflects poorly on his family.

But his sister was not here, so Gregor himself would have to act” (15). Gregor is in a process of metamorphosis where he is turning into a nasty insect; Grete believes it is just a bad illness that will go away over time. Although Grete cares for her brother by giving him some fresh food, she still feels a

The Samsa Family’s initial reaction to Gregor’s metamorphosis in Part I depicts them as dependent and compassionate. An example of their dependency can be seen by the concern the family shows

In The Metamorphosis Gregor Samsa is forced to deal with his transformation from a human being into an insect. After his transformation Gregor is no longer able to do everyday ordinary things. He now has to depend on someone to do these things for him. His younger sister, Grete, makes herself responsible for Gregor. She takes it upon herself to make sure that Gregor is fed and his room is cleaned. This leads to the question; why does she place such a huge responsibility on herself? An optimist like Gregor who only sees the good side of people would say it is because she is a loving and caring person. That her brother’s current condition makes her feel sorry for him and

Furthermore, Gregor’s descent into social and physical abjection then forces his family to change radically in order to support themselves. In the beginning, Gregor starts off as the provider for his family. He hates his job, but he still goes above and beyond the call of duty to give his family a more comfortable life, even indulging the expensive endeavour of his sisters’ dream of studying the violin. However, after the metamorphosis, he is thrust into the role of a dependant – forcing his family to take responsibility and support themselves. His sister steps up to the plate in the beginning, giving him a selection of foodstuffs to find what he likes and even cleaning up after him. His parents are still in denial at this point, so much so that they refuse to see him at all. But as time goes by, his family begins to accept the situation and even try to help Grete out. His father produces some money from his previous failed business venture and his mother and sister try to make life more comfortable for Gregor. Grete in particular changes the most noticeably; Gregor himself notes at the beginning that her life up till that point had been “enviable”, consisting of “wearing nice