![]() ![]() ![]() As he’s trying to figure out how to work his new body, his boss, the Chief Clerk, shows up and demands to see Gregor. Gregor spends the next moments struggling to get rolled over and out of bed without hurting himself. He expresses his concern over his family, their finances, and his responsibility to both. Despite this shocking turn of events, he’s more worried about the fact that he’s overslept and has now missed a train he needed to catch for work. The protagonist of the novel, Gregor wakes up in his bed to discover he’s been transformed into a gigantic insect, or something resembling a cockroach. The novelįranz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis opens with traveling salesman Gregor Samsa. He delves into what it means to be human, to be perceived as human, and then have those perceptions taken away by no fault of one’s own. Over the rest of the novel, Kafka explores themes of humanity, alienation, family, and responsibility. ![]() He struggles briefly with his physiology but struggles for many more pages with his humanity and holding onto the shreds that remain of it. ![]() The change is surprising to Gregor but is less worrying than the impossibility of providing for his family. Gregor Samsa, a man who works hard at a job he hates in order to support his family, wakes up one morning in the body of a giant vermin. It details the shocking transformation of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, into a large cockroach. ![]()
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