The Metamorphosis

Kate Chopin uses Adele to emphasize the differences between her and Edna. Edna Pontellier is not a Creole, so her relationship with her husband is difficult. In her husband's eyes she has failed in her duties as a wife and as a mother to her own children. What Enda's husband expects from her is never what she does. Leonce comes home in the middle of the night and talks to Edna while she is sleeping.

She took care of him and fed him when no one else seemed to care. After seeing her “changed'; brother for the first time and being frightened by his appearance, “she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut again';. Grete still cared for her brother even though he had changed. Grete feeling sorry for Gregor, brought him an assortment of foods, to find out which ones he liked. She also wanted to help him out by removing the furniture from his bedroom so he could have more room to crawl around.

The parents in “The Metamorphosis” however turn abusive towards their son after his transformation and loving and caring towards Grete. The siblings in Walker’s “Everyday Use” have a strained relationship. This can be seen in the beginning when Maggie is anxious about Dee’s arrival and the tension that comes with it. Even when Dee arrives Maggie doesn’t want to be seen and tries to get back into the house, and only doesn’t because Mama stops her. This strained relationship between Maggie and Dee is due to the two of them being opposites in every way.

At first the concern that the family shows seems genuine, especially for the sister Grete who shows the greatest sympathy for Gregor and takes it upon herself to be his caretaker. His mother and father seem utterly in despair by Gregors transformation and feel that it is a great encumbrance on them since he is the sole breadwinner. Gregor was made to believe that his family is incapable of working and that they were counting on him for support. Gregor in his new cockroach body is unable to communicate with his family, however he is able to hear and understand them. As it turns out his family has been deceiving him; his father has saved up some money unbeknownst to Gregor and his father soon acquires a job as a security guard.

She feeds him twice a day and tries to make sure his food is of his liking. His mother in the beginning seems to still care for him but however, cannot bear to look at him or enter the room. The fat... ... middle of paper ... ...ought about others and truly cared about others happiness. However many times he felts pressured by his family to work and feels that helpless and guilty when he can no longer provide for his family. To me this is way he transforms, because he is so pressured he fears it so much that it’s almost like he willed it to happen.

That is going under the assumption that there is a place. "Indigo did not tell her mother about Mr. Lucas being so evil, nor did she mention that her new fiddle could talk."(Norton 43) With in the first few lines of the story Indigo’s violin begins its transformation from merely and instrument to an extension of her soul. Symbolically Indigo’s violin is representative of her soul. With her violin Indigo pursues the passions of her soul as she struggles to find her place somewhere between childhood and womanhood. Indigo’s mother begs her not to play the violin anymore at night because the neighbors complained about the awful noise.

Her mother continually reminds her of her differences throughout the play. Every time the family comes to a confrontation someone retreats to the past and reflects on life as it was back then, not dealing with life as it is for them today. Tom, assuming the macho role of the man of the house, babies and shelters Laura from the outside world. His mother reminds him that he is to feel a responsibility for his sister. He carries this burden throughout the play.

Instead of expressing her own concerns, Lena allows her husband to make major decisions. Influenced by her childhood experiences and the troubles of the marriage between her parents, Lena inherits a passive role in her relationship to Harold. As a child, Lena was always kept away from strangers by her mother, fueling her curiosity and imagination. In order to keep the “bad man” from planting babies in Lena, her mother had barricaded the door to the basement and told her not to enter. However, Lena’s curiosity finally enabled her to pry open the door, but she fell into a dark chasm.

Although the dodo was at an unfair disadvantage. Evolution is the struggle for survival, in fact so many species have become extinct here on earth. Sometimes mutations and genetic drift is an accident but the remains of that species may take on that form because it has become beneficial or the trait cause no harm, holding a neutral state. The disappearance of some species as is the modern story will affect the now living beings on this earth. Life is a constant struggle, the dance is forever and will improve for some and end soon for others.

As a result of Gregor’s physical metamorphosis, he also succumbs to a psychological transformation the longer he lives in his insect body. Gregor accepts his new physical form and begins using it to his advantage. He develops a love for food scraps and climbs the walls of his room fo... ... middle of paper ... ...tamorphosis deals with physical, psychological and emotional transformations in multiple characters. Although Gregor Samsa’s physical transformation was the most grotesque and obvious, his psychological metamorphosis correlated with his mutation. While Gregor is dealing with the most unbelievable transformation, both Mrs. Samsa and Grete undergo a subtle metamorphosis of their own.