Gregor Samsa

They pushed him away when he needed them the most; they did not believe that Gregor was still himself after he changed to a cockroach. Gregor’s transformation greatly affected his relationship with his family, and roles shifted within the family also. Before the transformation, Gregor was the sole provider for his family. His father and mother claimed to be too disabled to work and his sister was only a child. Gregor loved his family so much that he worked at a job he hated to pay off his…

Kafka’s short story, The Metamorphosis, the reader peers into the life of the Samsa family, seeing the metamorphosis of not only the hard-working son, but also of his three other family members. Over the course of the 100 years of production of The Metamorphosis, there has been many discussions on what Kafka was trying to convey in his morbid and saddening short story. Many discussions include the idea of humanity, and if Gregor still kept his humanity after transforming into a ‘vermin’, whether…

In The Metamorphosis, Grete’s music symbolizes the lingering humanity within Gregor and his aspiration to connect with his sister and reinvigorate their close bond; prior to his death, it serves as Gregor’s final bastion of hope. Even though Gregor remains a vermin throughout the novella, Grete’s music exposes his lingering, inner humanity. From the outset, Gregor is established to be a “monstrous vermin” with features such as a “vaulted brown belly” (1). Evidently, he has lost his physical…

trust in ourselves is limiting ourselves. That we let our subjectivity and imagination interfere with reality that we may never really know. When Gregor 's sister realizes that Gregor must go, she says, “The fact that we 've believed it for so long is the root off all our trouble (Metamorphosis 134).” At first sight, it may seem that Kafka is saying that Gregor is…

Literary Analysis: “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka is known by most first-time readers as simply a classic, existentialist work of fiction that follows the life of a man named Gregor Samsa, whom wakes up one morning to find that he has suddenly metamorphosed into a roach. Despite this seemingly simple plot summarization of man-turned-bug, the Metamorphosis offers much more room for interpretation when one analyzes the text. Further analysis shows that the…

in the two stories, the narrative point of views, the theme, and symbols. The main character in The Metamorphosis is Gregor Samsa, a sales man who is constantly traveling for sales purposes. The main character in Bartleby the Scrivener is Bartleby, a scrivener hired by a lawyer. In both of these stories, Gregor and Bartleby have jobs that fulfill their needs,…

socially, or even emotionally. In the magic realism story of Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa struggle against isolation due to his family, and the feeling of lack of acceptance. Due to Gregor’s situation, he has multiple epiphanies where he acknowledges his own self-awareness. Ultimately, Gregor succumbs to the alienation that he deals with and thus dies an altruistic death. Initially, Gregor is unable to develop social relations due to the constraints put…

In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, we see a unique view of a family dynamic and how easily it can change. Gregor Samsa was once the jewel of his family and the sole provider. Once Gregor Samsa’s transformation occurred so did his importance in the family. He went from the most important person in his family to the most useless one. This led to an overwhelming feeling of loneliness. Gregor although he was lonely beforehand he did not feel the sting of it because of his family's appreciation…

the men were sent to battle, while the remaining working class struggled to control their own lives at home. Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis exemplifies the constraints wrapped around the working class as World War I was underway beginning in 1914. Gregor Samsa’s bug transformation depicts his isolation from his world and his family since he is not able to work. While this is apparent, we can see through various poems developed about the horrors of World War I that instilled fear upon the people…

At the ending of “Metamorphosis” Mr. and Mrs. Samsa mention, “their increasingly lively daughter, the way that of late, in spite of the trouble that had made her cheeks pale, she had bloomed into an attractive and well-built girl” (Kafka 146) which indicates that after the hardships that the family had gone through with Gregor, the family, and the girl had grown and blossomed into a…