The Father In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

Uniform- The uniform his father wears for his job is a symbol of his father’s dignity, as well as Gregor’s changing feelings of pity and respect for him. Throughout the story, his father is shown primarily from Gregor’s point of view. We gain from him a picture of his father as a lazy and miserable man whom Gregor feels sorry for but not necessarily respects. But when Gregor runs out of his and sees his father for the first time in weeks, Gregor’s opinion of the father changes. This shift is most evident through Gregor’s description of the father’s uniform, which gives the father an air of dignity: Gregor notices the “smart blue uniform with gold buttons,” and thinks the father looks to be “in fine shape,” suggesting the father’s self-esteem …show more content…
Just how Gregor becomes a captive in his room after his metamorphosis, the rest of the Samsa family has also become captives and imprisoned in their flat. While Gregor is able to provide everything for them, they are fairly satisfied, rarely going out. They need not have to worry about anything. When Gregor goes through his transformation, we can be sure the apartment certainly contributes to his sad change of events in Gregor's life.
Once Gregor changes to an insect, there is no way to escape the apartment. Going out every day had taken its toll and his only escape now will come with his death. Gregor's father sees himself now as the dominating figure within the apartment. He even drives out the lodgers. The apartment they live in contributes to joining the other members of the family into a separate unit that Gregor cannot belong …show more content…
He uses metaphor throughout his whole corpus of The metamorphosis, and pushes it to its highest confines, sometimes exceeds it to bizarre; he uses metaphors to show and explain the relationships which exist between human