Gregor Samsa In The Metamorphosis

Imagine one day waking up with a terrible dream and was turned into a bug. Well, that’s what happened to Gregor Samsa, a short novella called “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka. When Gregor Samsa was turned into a bug, his father, mother, and his sister treats him differently. At first, Gregor’s family feels sorry for him and then later on, his family treats him like a bug. As the days goes by his family became more frustratuate on him. Gregor’s sister, Grete, treats him with kindness and at the end, she also was the one who confront to Mr.Samsa and Mrs. Samsa that they need to get rid of the monster that is living them. “‘Father, Mother,’ said his sister, hitting the table with her hand as introduction, ‘we can’t carry on like this. Maybe

“Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The household budget became even more smaller; so now the maid was dismissed;....They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much as when it was new” (Kafka 33). The Samsa also sold their jewelries. Grete have to work and take care of Gregor so she gets exhausted each time. At the end, Grete was the one who complained about Gregor, that how this bug is a monster and it is not her brother which also ruined the family relationship. At the end, when Gregor dies, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa feels that Grete have matured because she is the first to called Gregor out. “..but, while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was blossoming into a well built and a beautiful young lady” (Kafka,

There are many things changed and Gregor’s father feels threatened by Gregor when many days passes by. Gregor was frightened by his father even in when he was turned into an insect. “If only his father would stop that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused” (Kafka, 18). At the end of Section II, his father threw apples at him because Gregor was running outside of the room and his father feels attacked even though Gregor was not attacking him. An example, “He really ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was that really his father?..then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there no no longer any point running as his father had decided to bombard him” (Kafka, 31). In that case, also breaks the bond of family because there was a miscommunication due to Gregor and his