Gregor Samsa is a hard-working, traveling salesman who has dedicated his life to his career. He confines his schedule to nothing but work so that he may meet the expectations he has set for himself, and those set on him by his family. This constant pressure continues to drive Gregor as he persistently focuses on his responsibilities and is unable to put time towards his health or the connection with his family. It is his relentless work that ends up not only pushing him away from his family, but also strips him of his humanity and the life he could have had. Franz Kafka takes us through the story of a man who is no longer a man. He has gained the mindset of a worker ant, which is to accomplish what he believes needs to be done until the day he dies.
The first line we hear from the main character in our story is “Good Lord, what an exhausting profession I’ve chosen. Day in and day out on the road. Work like this is far more unsettling than business conducted at home.. Devil take it all!” This is a major …show more content…
Because of his work as an author during a similar time period, Kafka’s profession was also commonly based around rejection and failure. Kafka was writing this in a time where he would have been experiencing the same rejection and difficulties as Gregor. Susan Bernofsky writes in her The New Yorker article that “Kafka’s celebrated novella The Metamorphosis was written a century ago, in late 1912, during a period in which he was having difficulty making progress on his first novel … he was working on a story that “came to me in my misery lying in bed”. With all of his years as a writer he was still unsatisfied with what he had done and requested to have his work destroyed. In a way, Gregor also seems unsatisfied with his work, constantly worrying about where he needs to be and what he needs to be doing without giving himself a
The first line we hear from the main character in our story is “Good Lord, what an exhausting profession I’ve chosen. Day in and day out on the road. Work like this is far more unsettling than business conducted at home.. Devil take it all!” This is a major …show more content…
Because of his work as an author during a similar time period, Kafka’s profession was also commonly based around rejection and failure. Kafka was writing this in a time where he would have been experiencing the same rejection and difficulties as Gregor. Susan Bernofsky writes in her The New Yorker article that “Kafka’s celebrated novella The Metamorphosis was written a century ago, in late 1912, during a period in which he was having difficulty making progress on his first novel … he was working on a story that “came to me in my misery lying in bed”. With all of his years as a writer he was still unsatisfied with what he had done and requested to have his work destroyed. In a way, Gregor also seems unsatisfied with his work, constantly worrying about where he needs to be and what he needs to be doing without giving himself a