like me that the satire is too heavy to just be meant in an allegory fashion. It’s as if Kafka “was carried away by a conviction of reality of the situation he had conceived” (Fast, page 12). You see when establishing satire your object is to create a smile or metaphor and relate it to the object at hand, to drive out the true of that object all being done with a certain grace or ambiance to it. Essentially what your talking about is fake but comparing it to something real because of significant likeness. The satire itself should never be more real than the object at hand; it should never have more life. However Kafka went too far. He made the satire, which is the likeness of a cockroach, too real. If Kafka were to not have delved so much into unneeded characteristics of Gregor then people such as I would get his message clearer. Kafka talked about the clinging to walls and ceilings, all of which had no bearing on what I, learned the story to be about. The story is about Communism and its affects on both parties when it doesn’t workout. You see before Gregor’s transformation he was living in a communist environment, he would slave at a job he did not like and give most his earnings to his parents mainly his dad to pay off a debt. Much like communism you slave at a job within your trade, give most your earnings to the government to either help build up the government or pay of national debts. When Gregor was late getting to work it was the beginning whether he knew it or not. Him turning into a cockroach and the pain he felt in his stomach at the time was a revolting of sorts. His father was left to carry the workload and much like a communist government when the people, which Gregor represents, cannot work or revolt the government treats the people badly and an effect is made. That effect is the downfall of the whole structure. Which happened at the end, when Gregor dies the system collapses ...
