Gregor enters the classic short novel “The Metamorphosis” as a bug. The traveling salesman believes the transformation has occurred from lack of rest, after all, the confused man works constantly to pay the debt of his parents so hallucinations could be an accurate response. The character of Gregor transformers throughout the story from a human trapped in a giant vermin to nothing more than a dung beetle. The morning that Gregor awakes from troubled dreams, he is described as having an armor-like back along with a brown belly with many tiny, thin legs. Many arches divided his slightly domed, brown belly into sections. Covers of Gregor’s bed were not big enough to conceal the slippery shell-like substance that was his belly and back. Once the used-to-be human made his way to the floor, he noticed antennas on the tip of his head that were used for guiding him like eyes would. The room was considered extremely small and packed by Gregor, the humongous bug’s, standards. …show more content…
Twice a day, Grete would bring in experimental food for Gregor to figure out what his taste buds wanted. Gregor leaned towards wanting the old, rotten strawberries, vegetables, and other decayed foods. Before turning into a vermin, Gregor worked to pay off his parent’s debt, and along with that, he secretly decided to send Grete, a violinist, to a music school known as a conservatory. The father and mother of Gregor loved him dearly and were extremely proud of him for paying off their own debts. However, once the incident happened, Gregor’s father wished not to see him along with not allowing Gregor’s mother to see him either. The difference in the relationship between Gregor’s father and mother was that Gregor’s mother wished dearly to see her son again while the father held her back from doing