The Role Of Family In The Novel The Metamorphasis

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka tells an eerie tale of one opuss transformation into a human sized, hemipteron-like creature, and his familys reply to this. The novel delves into the role of family and the sudden shift in trunk to the gradual change in ideas and mind.

        When Gregor Samsa, the main character, awoke he raise that he was a bug. His reaction to this was somewhat peculiar. Instead of anguish round himself, he was thinking about his job and how a good deal he hated it. He then began to think of how more than trouble he would be in if he was new-made because [h]e was a creature of the bosss, spineless and stupid. (p 12) It sounds like he is blaming his job for the transformation that happened. Under his current circumstances, he good-tempered wanted to go to work, but could not get dispatch his bed. Gregor loves his family very much and realizes he is the sole provider for them. as yet though he was a giant bug, Gregor hadnt the slightest sight of abandoning his family. Through Gregors work, he had provided his family with a comfortable life, and wanted very badly to send his sister to school where she could intrust the violin. He knows he must work in parliamentary procedure for his family to survive.

        Gregors familys reaction to the new Gregor was not a positive. On first glance his set about fainted and his father began to cry out in what seemed like rage. I believe they were worried about their monetary situation. The vex was absolutely petrified of Gregor, while his father forced him back into his room. Gregors sister, Grete, attempting to be kind, left some regimen for Gregor, but when seeing him for the first time she slammed the opening in terror, yet opened it because it seemed as if she regretted it. She was the only one who illustrated whatsoever type of compassion towards Gregor; this however changed. Grete can no prolonged stand the site of his bug-like state. What re entirelyy makes her disgusted with Gregor is when he scares his mother so bad, she faints, and Grete must get her mothers medicine, slamming the door behind her cover her grief. This locks Gregor out of his room putting him in a fearful flurry. His father then strikes out against him, demonstrating his anger towards him, by throwing fruit at him, dealing him a paralyzing blow.



His mother how ever illustrates sympathy by pleading with the father not to kill Gregor, changing from the terror she once possessed for him to showing some sort of compassion.

        Gregors transformation into a bug is not a punishment. I believe that is what the family needed in order to get back on their feet. Without this hindrance on the finances, they would not be able to get back into the manpower and be active again. It also brought the rest of the family closer, through the riskiness of a giant bug in their house. I thought the end was very strange, as Gregor passed away. The family came together with the simple financial statement of let bygones be bygones now. (p 52) They then turned their thoughts on to Grete, which Gregor had make all along.

        This story is very strange indeed, while expressing the grandness of relationship. I believe Gregor sacrificed himself for the betterment of his family, which he had done all along, but had given them a better gift than property alone; the gift was that they could fend for themselves now.

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