Outsiders In The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

First of all, Gregors family pays less attention and see him less in the novella. Once said in the book "For the first fourteen days, Gregors parents could not come in to see him" (29). This quote

In the first part of the book, Gregor wakes up and has evolved into a huge bug, or so he thinks. Doubting his ability to get out of bed, he looks for answers for the cause, but can not find any. Then, his mom comes to his room and is only concerned at the fact he is late for work and does not ask if he is all right. As said on page 5, by Gregor’s mother, “Gregor—it’s a quarter to seven. Didn’t you want to catch the train?” This is the only thing she asks her son Gregor when he wakes up unusually late. Expectedly Gregor was looking for a careful remark but this shows us that his mom is only concerned about the money Gregor makes instead of his well-being. In accordance, Gregor is starting to feel ashamed of this condition he must deal with, “Just don’t stay in bed being useless” (Kafka, 7). This shows us, Gregor feels useless because he cannot work for his family and help them at all. He made a ginormous effort to get out of his bed to work and yet is family is only worried about him losing his job instead of his well being. As we see, his family doesn’t love him genuinely and do not love Gregor like they should, being his family.

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

Your voice. Hair. Clothes. Body shape. Ethnicity. Family. Money. All things that will decide whether or not society will make or break you. Social groups and even the world today can be so demanding and demeaning when it comes to fitting it. It is so easy to fall off the social pyramid and be labeled as an “outcast” now-a-days. Many believe that an outcast is just someone who is primarily misunderstood, or misjudged. But in all reality, an outcast can be anyone on a very large spectrum of people. According the Webster’s Dictionary, an outcast is “a person who has been rejected by society or social group.” For example, in Franz Kafka’s short story, “The Metamorphosis”, the protagonist, Gregor Samsa is totally rejected by his family for a very odd and out of the blue reason.

An outsider is one who is simply just misjudged by others. A big factor of misjudging someone is the appearance of how they physically look. For example, in the novel The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the main character, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to discover that he has transformed into a human bug. When his body became visible to the Samsa family, everyone freaks out and starts

However, one could argue that outsiders are just misunderstood. For example, referring back to the last paragraph, the african american culture is misunderstood because of a stereotype they have always had hanging over their shoulders. Or even back to “The Metamorphosis”, Gregor was misunderstood because his family at first became blind and relied on Gregor for the support of Welfare, but they soon realized that Gregor was the happiness of the family. Outsiders could also be misunderstood because some people chose to be outsiders

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

There is a bountiful number of outsiders in our society and we are wondering, why are they outsiders and what have they done to become that, what defines them? Outsiders in our society are simply misunderstood and people do not understand them, hence them being outsiders. The reasons that seem to make outsiders misunderstood is that they do not like or do the popular stuff at the time. Also, those who are outsiders are seen as people that are “different,” but really are misunderstood. Outsiders are just misunderstood in society and not purposely being pushed out.

One example of an outsider would be Gregor in the famous story “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka. In this story, there are numerous examples of Gregor being misjudged and Gregor feeling misunderstood. The first example is how people view Gregor as a traveling salesman. “People don't like traveling salesmen. I know that. People think they earn pots of money and thus lead a fine life. People don't even have any special reason to think through this judgment more clearly” (Kafka, 148). In this quote, you can clearly see that people are misjudging Gregor because he is a traveling salesman. In the text, Gregor feels that he is misunderstood because none of these people know that Gregor has to work as a traveling salesman not because he wants to, but because he has to pay off his family's debt. Another example is how Gregor’s family assumes things about what he would or would not do. “But how can it be Gregor? If it

People might leave “outsiders” out due their appearance and might “look different” from everyone else. These “outsiders” are left out and it can make them feel bad about themselves and their appearance. For instance, in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the main character, Gregor, is isolated by his family after turning into a bug. Before he was a bug, his family is fine with him and treats him fairly. After he turns into a bug, his family traps him inside his room and that causes him to lose his humanity. Gregor can be compared to an outsider because he was left out and isolated from

Being an outsider is considered to be someone who is isolated and disconnected from others. This isolation can result in many tragic outcomes, one being depression and in other cases even worse. In the Modernist short story, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka portrays a character who has been treated like a bug before his physical metamorphosis which caused him to make one very bad decision.

According to the author, Gregor has always been an introvert. He would lock the door of his room and stay there and he would not even make any connection to anyone in his family, but her sister, Grete. Before his transformation, he would lock his door for privacy (class notes). Gregor is a hard-working man and he has dedicated his life to his work even though he is unsatisfied with his job. He would often think about rebelling against his family, but he can’t quite grasp the idea of leaving them. His willingness of working tirelessly for the sake of his family proves that he loves them. It is proven that he is lacking human contact because he cuts out a picture of a model off a magazine and he hanged it on his wall (414). This means that he has no special someone to spend his life with

The general definition of an outsider is someone who doesn't belong into a particular group. German author Franz Kafka’s short story “The Metamorphosis” is a prime example of this. The story follows Gregor Samsa, an average man living with his parents and his sister who is also the family's “breadwinner”, who wakes up to the realization that he had transformed into an insect overnight (Kafka, page 137). After revealing his transformation to his family, Gregor begins to feel like an outsider to his family because of his transformation (Kafka, page 147-151). The family begins to neglect Gregor, treating him like an actual bug, which leads him to his death (Kafka, page 155-177).

Gregor’s father starts to throw apples at him, and this proves that Gregor is no longer perceived as a son, but rather as an unruly pest that nobody wants around. “One apple, thrown weakly, grazed Gregor’s back and slid off harmlessly. But the very next one that came flying after it literally forced its way into Gregor’s back.” (Kafka 1179). This shows how within a few weeks Gregor’s family went from loving him to wanting to hurt him.

For instance, in " The Metamorphosis.” In The Metamorphosis written by Kafka, Gregor changes in a bug, and his physical appearance are considered " odd " or " different " which caused him to fall out of social order and no longer be the insider but the outsider. Transformation into a different lifestyle is what makes someone an outsider, because they are living in a world that they are not used to and others won't accept them, since the world that they live in is different. For example, Gregor lives in another world where he is an insider as a cockroach, but to his family, he is the outsider and they can never accept him because of that. So he is treated negatively with discrimination and criticism.