er that his family and as a result was condemned to a life without love or caring not to mention basic 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 empty hotel rooms or his apathetic family. His parents and their dominance thus extends to the system which deprives him of creative life and married love (Eggenschwiler 54). So concerned with ensuring his parents and sister were taken care of, he forgot his own needs. It was apparent to everyone that he was no longer thought of as a son or an extension of the family, but merely as a support system. The tragic fact is that everyone had grown accustomed to it, his family as much as himself; they took the money gratefully, he gave it willingly but the act was accompanied by no remarkable effusiveness (Kafka 48). It appears that in the course of his hectic work schedule, he overlooks that in return for dedication to his family, he remains unloved and unappreciated. Yet Gregor still believed he had to provide his family with a pleasant, contented, secure life (Emrich 149), regardless of how they treated him. Gregors existence before the metamorphosis was much like after it; limited to work and family, he went unnoticed by both. After changing into a cockroach one night, Gregor is forced to live a life of isolation with a family who is appalled by him. He is placed in a dark bedroom, in the jumble of discarded furniture and filth a monstrous vermin, a grotesque, hidden part of the family (Eggenschwiler 211). Shock and terror, resulting in Gregor being locked away, marked his familys reaction to his metamorphosis. His sister is the only one that, while frightened, would tend to Gregors room and meals. She even took the res...
