In the story Metamorphosis, where a young man transforms into a bug, it shows how one person steps up to the plate and takes responsibility to help his family out in a time of struggle. However, being this reliable to one’s family directs a different response from the family members when the helpful one’s world ends up turned upside down. When this young man wakes up one morning and speaks the words “What happened to me?” he thought. “This was no dream. His room, a / normal human room except that it was rather too small, lay peacefully / between the four familiar walls.” (Kafka, 2006 p.1966) He calls his room a “normal human room,” suggesting that he no longer considers himself normal or human. In fact, he had transformed into a bug that morning,
