Essay on Metamorphosis of the Family in Kafkas Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis of the Family in Kafkas Metamorphosis In Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis, the nature of Gregor Samsas reality transports insignificantly in spite of his drastic tangible changes. Gregors life before the metamorphosis was limited to working and caring for his family. As a traveling salesman, Gregor worked long, hard hours that left little time to jazz life. He reflects on his life acknow leadging the plague of traveling the anxieties of changing trains, the irregular, middle-level meals, the ever changing faces, never to be seen again, people with whom one has no chance to be friendly (Kafka 13). Gregor, working to pay off his familys debt, has resigned him ego to a life full of work. Kafka himself paralleled this sentiment in a quote taken from his diaries noting that no matter how hard you work that work still doesnt conciliate you to loving concern for people. Instead, youre alone, a total stranger, a mere target area of curiosity (Pawel 167). Gregor submerges h imself in work and becomes a stranger to himself and to life. Any role of social contact beyond porters, waitresses or bartenders was non-existent. He had once met a cashier in a hat shop, whom he had pursued seriously but too slowly (Kafka 76). There was no room in Gregors life for people other that his family and as a result was condemned to a life without love or caring not to mention rudimentary companionship. He worked diligently to provide for his family and that remained his only goal in life. Gregors family relied on him to be the breadwinner of the family, but gave him nothing in return. The life that he had led until now was one fully of obligations and loneliness he came home to countermand hotel rooms or his apathetic fam... ...g him and longing for his demise. Can anyone be veritable that their lives are good and perfect and that their families would understand and accept any change that could arise? The fact is that above and beyond all things a somebody must con sider themselves first, however selfish it might appear. Sense of self will keep you through all the adverse times in life and be a companion to rely on when no one else cares. Works Cited Eggenschwiler, David. The Metamorphosis, Freud, and the Chains of Odysseus. Franz Kafka Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York Chelsea manse Publishers, 1986. 199-219. Emrich, Wilhelm. Franz Kafka A Critical Study of His Writings. New York Ungar, 1968. Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis. Trans. A.L. Lloyd. New York Vanguard Press, Inc., 1946. Pawel, Ernst. The nightmare of Reason. New York Vintage Books, 1984.