Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, brings to light the realities of what many face in everyday life. In life, it is natural for people to expand their horizons and grow to develop a persona unique to themselves. However, all too often the process is interrupted and eventually destroys itself and all the potential that comes with it. In the story, the reader sees Gregor and his mutational life slowly disintegrate into his later demise. Here, the idea of self-worth and acceptance plays a major role in Gregor’s life and his transformation into a bug. In the beginning, we see Gregor awaken to his life as he has known it to be for some time. With his job being to support his entire family, his stress about missing work is apparent. The position his family …show more content…
Beginning with their wariness toward their bug family member, we slowly see how they slip from their consideration and inclusion of Gregor in their family to slowly not even caring about his wellbeing. Even his sister, who was truly the only one to care for him in his time of need early in his mutation grew tired of him. As Gregor became more bug like, he lost his ability to adapt to the situation as a human would. The way he no longer cared for food showed how he began to deteriorate as a living being. In being treated like the bug everyone around him thought him to be, that is what he gradually became. The question is raised in the story when his sister is playing her violin on whether or not, “Was he was a beast if music could move him so?” The fact that this scene depicts what humanity was still alive in Gregor at the end of his life gives the reader good reason to believe that, even as he became one with his beetle state, his human soul was still alive inside him. With being deprived of any true human contact and no one trying to help him cope with his problems, the fire that Gregor had as a human fell silent until he was given the opportunity to feel something very human again at the time he heard the