sting to see how much utter disgust and loath his father looks at him with, and not for just physical reasons either. This after years of Gregor putting aside his own personal life and ambitions and working hard to repay a debt that is not his to begin with, you would think there would be some form of compassion on his father’s part. However some parental compassion does not fall on deaf ears for Gregor’s mother openly voices her concern for the now grimacing state her son is in. These actions however mean nothing because as the story goes on each family members character begins to build due to the fact of responsibility that has now befallen them. Each member must take up now take up jobs to keep the family afloat. As the story builds the father has now taken back his former position as head of the household with Gregor’s sister a close second. The mother with her asthma proves to be just too physically and emotionally weak to hold much weight, even though her wifely duties are much appreciated by her husband. As time goes on everyone except for Gregor’s mother basically looks at him like an “invalid” (Kafka, page 122) and wants this nightmare he’s brought to the household to end. At one point Gregor and his father get into another physical altercation which sees Gregor taking on cockroach like qualities like scurrying back and forth to avoid danger in the from of apples being thrown at him, one of which becomes resident in Gregor’s back. To compensate for the lack of monetary gain the Samsa’s rent out one of their rooms to lodgers to help cover the slack. At the climax of the story we find not a physical altercation but a verbal one between all talking members of the family which excludes Gregor for two reasons but still involves him. When Gregor decides to leave his room to try to share a moment with his talented violinist of a sister it is mistaken for an attack on the...
