While Gregor’s daily struggle to earn money is understood from early in the novella, the roles of his father, mother, and sister are revealed to the reader as they begin to struggle with Gregor’s existence as an insect. Gregor was initially the sole provider for his entire family, but his sudden transformation thrust his three immediate family members into a monetary crisis. Gregor’s father, whom Gregor once perceived as weak and frail, was in fact capable of working without issue. Kafka writes that Gregor’s father was once a “tired man” who was “hardly able to stand up,” but somehow was “standing up straight enough” after earning a job at the banking institute. As for the women in Gregor’s family, his mother and sister, both were capable