Instead of peacefully and humanely attempting to drive him back into his room after an escape, Mr.Samsa treats him like a complete animal and worthless insect and throws apples in order to force Gregor into his room. Gregor watches as fruit flew from his father's hands and grazed him “He had filled his pockets with fruit from the dish on the sideboard and was now shying apple after apple, without taking particularly good aim for the moment.” Mr. Samsa forces Gregor back into seclusion in a violent way, the way in which one would squash a pesky bug. Gregor no longer exists as a human, only as the worthless beetle his family always treated him like, but that Gregor previously refused to accept and acknowledge.
