How Does Gregor Samsa Change

Gregor Samsa, is the protagonist of the short story, Metamorphosis. The whole story as the title suggests, brings a good picture of how changes can come in life and people and things transforming with the new having little to reflect its old nature with. Metamorphosis can take the usual state of things transforming and can be seen by the eye as the forms become different and conspicuous, but also, the book most importantly draws our attention to how people’s characters also go into metamorphosis and the results are felt by the heart and they are so real.

Hard to believe, a big shocker, to himself, Gregor Samsa woke up one morning and he was completely transformed from a human being to vermin. “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin”. Talk of an insect that looked like a giant beetle. He could not fathom the changes.

He went for days contemplating the next major step as Gregor Samsa was as good as dead. He was not able to provide any more. As any father and husband would do, the father stepped up to the task of providing for the family. What a change of attitude toward his role? So he could go out and work and provide for his family. What took him so long to realize this. All was well as far as family security and provision was concerned. He came out thoughtful and a good manager, besides the fact that his business had collapsed 5 years ago. He had some savings from it that had accrued some good amount of interest. He even managed well the resources Gregor Samsa brought home. He goes ahead, to rent out some room in his house for the purposes of generating more income for his household. So much came out of the situation now. The changes brought about a new pattern of thinking for him. What took him so long, one might wonder, as the change seemed to open a father’s mind from a deep