Gregor Samsa

character Gregor Samsa. His reality barely changes even though physically he has drastically changed. Kafka uses Gregor’s transformation to shine light on the more significant metamorphosis of the Samsa family. It is Gregor who remains largely unchanged as the rest of the family undergoes drastic changes from dependent and sympathetic to independent and hostile and eventually to dependent and hopeful. In the Metamorphosis Franz Kafka illustrates that it is not Gregor who is the bug

Gregor Samsa and Depression Gregor Samsa is the main character in the book “The Metamorphosis” written by Franz Kafka and published in early 1915. The book which is primarily centered on Gregor and his family takes readers on a journey into the seemingly disturbing life of Gregor Sasma and how major changes in his life take him on a downward spiral of depression and eventually, death. The changes evident in Gregor did not only affect him, but also affected his immediate family resulting in attitudes

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as an unidentified bug lying on his back, helplessly waving around his limbs in order to get up. He looks around his small room and sees that everything is still in place. On a table lays a collection of cloth samples, as he is a salesman. Gregor looks out the window and rolls around in his bed trying to get back to sleep. He finds that he can’t sleep on his side and violently forces his body to turn, but fails after countless tries. Gregor starts to think on how

the man, Gregor Samsa, came to be a bug. Only the aftermath of his transformation. But the deterioration of man, and insect, and relationships is prevalent in the story. The relationship between Gregor and his family is an interesting one. The story questions the idea of unconditional love. The Samsa family had a lack of understanding and sympathy towards Gregor after his transformation providing evidence that they do not have unconditional love for Gregor. At the beginning, the Samsa family worried

Gregor Samsa: Metamorphosis Journal Entrires Number One- pages 117- 122 "Well, I haven't abandon all hope; once I saved enough to pay off my parents debt to him that should take another five or six years I'll go through with it no matter what. I'll make a big, clean break! But for now, I've got to get up, my train is leaving at five a.m. antique land set the alarm clock taking on the wardrobe. "God Almighty!" he thought. It was six-thirty, and the hands of the clock work only inching forward, it

author employs Gregor as a vehicle for not only Gregor’s own metamorphosis, but the metamorphosis of his entire family. In the beginning of the story, Gregor transforms into a bug that disables his movement. Without his ability to move, Gregor puts a handicap onto his family, unable to help pay off his father’s debt. Meanwhile, Gregor’s father finds a new job at a banking company to fill his masculine paradigm of having to work and provide for his family. At the same time Mr. Samsa finds his role

doubt that the main character, Gregor Samsa, experiences prominent acts of betrayal after his strange alteration, both with others and within himself. Consequently, Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis embodies various examples of betrayal through Gregor’s father abandoning him, Gregor giving up his life, and Grete losing her faith in Gregor’s human restoration. 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,

to grotesque vermin--of the main character, Gregor Samsa. Waking up to an unfamiliar, beetle-like body, Gregor Samsa focuses not on his plight, but rather on his inability to get to work on time. Disgusted, Gregor Samsa’s parents and sister confine him to his room and eventually begin to deny the possibility that the verminous shell contains their son and brother’s mind. Ironically, Kafka creates a separation between Gregor Samsa the human and Gregor Samsa the vermin, a discord between spiritual and

Kafka’s novella the main character, Gregor, undergoes physical and mental alterations. For example, Gregor physically “. . .transformed in his bed into an enormous bug” (Kafka pg.1). Also, his thoughts and actions hint to him being hard-working and relied on at the beginning of the story, while towards the end he provides less and is abandoned by his family. He isn’t the only one to go through a transformation. Other characters, such as Grete, Mr. Samsa, and Mrs. Samsa, each go through their own metamorphosis

understanding of the novella. I presented three aspects of the novella which I felt connected to current life: family difficulties, dehumanization through work, and alienation. In the story, Gregor’s relationship with his parents proves to be conflicting. Gregor feels pressured to be successful in his “grueling profession” to support his family. Although he sacrifices his livelihood to do so, his efforts are unappreciated and leave him feeling worthless. As adolescents, pressure from parents to be successful