m seemed to be enhanced by Gregor’s love for Grete’s music.Once Gregor has ‘morphed’ into the bug, his sister more than likely out of love and concern, takes care of him. She gives him food and cleans up his room for him. His parents will not go anywhere near him, though I think his mother really wants to. Grete is left to take care of him, and then she gets sick of it by the second chapter. We start to notice that the care for Gregor dwindles to the point that his room is cleaned only about once a month. Annoyance is growing for this ‘thing’ that once was her brother. She even says that if it truly were Gregor, then he would take under consideration his family’s feelings and leave the flat. By the end of the story, Grete is fed up with Gregor and just wants him dead. It is understandable that she would feel this way, but when reading this I find myself getting mad because I picture in my mind the conditions in which Gregor has to live in. Not only has he mysteriously turned into a bug literally overnight, he has been left by himself; secluded from the world to rot in his own excrement. How sad this is. I think if I were his sister, mother, or father, I would have a little more compassion. This story is one of my favorites because I think that if I were a good writer, I would write something like The Metamorphosis because it is just off the wall, yet at the same time intense and very dramatic. While writing this paper I have come to realize that one could write a fair amount on this brilliant story by Franz Kafka....
