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Gregor Samsa wakes up one rainy morning from unsettling dreams and he find that he has completely transformed into a giant bug. Gregor’s mother, father, and office manager from work are all outside of his door worried about him because he didn’t make it to work this morning. Learning how to use his new body and make his way to the door, Gregor finally manages to open the door with his mouth and allows everyone to see him. At this sight, the office manager is frightened and leaves the house, the mother faints, and the father cries out. As the office manager is making his way to the door, Gregor is giving him a speech on if he could put in a good word for him at work but the office manager isn’t having it and leaves. The father chases Gregor back to his room. …show more content…
Grete, Gregor’s sister, would care for him and bring him food and clean his room. Bread and milk was left for him but he wouldn’t have those things and would rather eat moldy foods and kitchen scraps instead of fresh vegetables. Being in the room alone all the time, Gregor got used to crawling and found the satisfaction in being on the ceiling and under close, dark places, like under the sofa. The bug life was replacing his old human life and there wasn’t much left of that to hold onto after Grete thought he would enjoy more space in his room if his furniture was taken out of it. Gregor clung onto the last piece and human evidence he had that was a picture of a women in furs on his wall. This startled the mother and made her faint and Grete had to tell father what happened. He misunderstood and thought Gregor attacked mother so the father attacked Gregor with fruit and injured him with an apple. After this happens, the mother feels bad and is eager to see him but Grete and the father urge her not to. Grete loses interest in taking care of Gregor soon and begins to think he isn’t part of the

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