Comparison Of Death In 'The Metamorphosis'

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My paper is all about compare and contrast in two stories. My main theme is death. Death represent in Kafka “The Metamorphosis”, is hurt feeling from his family and other story death represent Herman Melvin “Bartleby the Scrivener”, is loneliness and alienation. Both character have really emotional ending. Death is not about only one person it’s all about physical attachment and how people treats to other. Both stories are really touching and emotional.
In the Metamorphosis Gregory Samor was a breadwinner. He always care about his family because his father was a retired man. Gregory is only one person who took care of all their expenses but when Gregory became insect his own family start hurt him. They even didn’t notice that they hurt own son. One day “when Gregory woke up in morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect”. He never though that one day he became some horrible insect. He was really hard working person and he never took day off from work when he became
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Bartleby only concentrate with own work and desk. He void all other social networking. This story is really interesting because when reader start reading this story, in every new paragraph I find out suspense and it was getting more and more excitement and I want to know about what was happen to bartleby. When I finish this story I felt bad for him.
One day suddenly Bartleby stopped working and he refuse to do work. He doesn’t like working anymore. When his co worker asked about the reason. He simply answered, “I prefer not to”, “I will not to”, everybody was shocked and they want to know the reason, but he doesn’t like to give any explanation. One day when cook make a dinner for him and he refuse to eat and next day in morning when his boos wants to meet him. He saw that barblety is in floor and his eyes was open and he die from

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