I would like to start by saying that most of the story was left as it is. Some details were cut off from the video, but that does not necessarily mean that there were changed. For example, the three lodgers were not mentioned, but they are the cause of Grete’s dismay and Gregor wanting to defend her, causing Gregor’s father to become extremely angry. The only point were the story was changed was that after the lodgers left and Gregor was left alone in his room, his body was not found by the older maid. Instead, he was found by his family. Why? In the original the maid find Gregor, informs the family, and they go look at him. They get happy and order the maid to dispose of the body. I did not want any maid in the picture. I wanted Gregor’s family to first find out by looking at him, not someone …show more content…
As the first metamorphosis occurred mysteriously, the second one occurred out of nowhere as well. It was just before Gregor passed away. When he remerged as a man, weak and fragile, he was a different man. He had understood all of the wasted years protecting and caring for a family that (literally) had almost let him die. They failed the most important test. When I read this story back in high school, I will now lie; it brought many tears to my eyes. I felt my eyes burn and my throat felt uncomfortably dry. I do not think someone has to endure that kind of pain, especially if the person is good-natured. It became my favorite. I have always wanted Gregor Samsa to stand up to his family. I wanted him to look at them straight to their eyes and ask them these important questions:
Am I not your son? Am I not your brother? Nevertheless, as much as I would have liked to spare him from that kind of ill-treatment, from the bottom of my heart I think Gregor Samsa needed to go through all of that to make him understand just what kind of environment and family he really lived in. At least the Gregor in my adaptation needed that hard