Character Analysis Of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

As a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa garnered an impressive income to provide for his financially dependent family consisting of elderly parents and a sister of sixteen. His life consisted of travel, only stopping to drop a paycheck on the dining table to his family 's delight. Within Franz Kafka 's "The Metamorphosis", this breadwinner has his only track of normalcy stripped from his being, woken late to work one morning to possess the body of a beetle. The physical metamorphosis Gregor endures can be seen as an analogy in reference to his mental alteration of a man who 's life is in all aspects estranged, a hopeless existence proven by a beetle for a body.

With Gregor 's transformation came a change in interactions with both his environment

Here, Gregor is savoring the abilities of his new form; his little legs with a sticky substance underneath, removing him from his previous human confinements which adhered to the laws of gravity. Crawling along the ceiling, thus committing an act completely insect, did take a toll on the grasp Gregor held on his humanity, his mind becoming lost. To further aid this directionless mind, his father felt the urge to punish his son as Gregor 's appeals "we 're of no help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder [... with] the threat of a lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father 's hand any moment," taking the initiative to give the beetle "a hefty shove from behind[...sending] him flying, and heavily bleeding, deep into his room" (17-18). With a voice clear as mud and the lack of an expressive

Gregor worked and raked in income, that was the extent of his life. He reckons "there 's still some hope, once I 've got the money together to pay off my parents debt [...] another five or six years I suppose" (8). He becomes so absorbed in aiding his family and their difficulties that he loses himself along the way. His transformation ridding him of the only family tie he held, a regular salary. The exclusion and its effects that came with his transformation are immediate, thinking "back to his family with emotion and love [...] he felt that he must go away even more strongly [...] Then, without his willing it, his head sank down completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils" (41). Without his consent, Gregor dies in a tranquil state of emotion and love. His feelings overriding his body 's state of neglect. A story of insignificance, reflected by the metamorphosis into an insect.

Gregor led a dismal life, proven when his family has no difficulties excluding him when he is transformed into an insect. Proven when his employer gave him not a chance after missing a single day of work. His change was draining and his absence was a