The Metamorphosis In Class Writing

In Metamorphosis, Gregor feels that he brings down his family by being around them.  His literal metamorphosis is the one we see throughout the novel as we seem him progress into his bug’s life and digress from his human life.  I feel that it is Gregor’s family that feed him these thoughts of digression and cause him to go into a cocoon of his own emotions yet ironically enough so does the rest of his family.  Gregor’s handicap, probably what his family would call it, was a literal and moral, showing and lesson.  It truly exemplified human nature and what one would do for his or her loved ones but as well as what they wouldn’t.  As Grete initially cared for Gregor, she got tired, restless, and annoyed looking at him everyday, in his bug condition and him not being able to care for himself.  As time went on, she grew into her own cocoon.  Gregor’s parents are a different story because they relied on him throughout their whole lives, so they felt that he dropped them by the wayside and they felt angry and greedy about his inability to provide more for them.  Although Gregor as a fictional character dies tragically because he felt that no one loved him or cared for him anymore, it is really a statement made about his family.  They cried for him and were saddened by the lost by but on pg. 53 of the novel, Kafka writes, “ It struck Mr. and Mrs. Samsa, almost at the same moment, how their daughter, who was getting more animated all the time, had blossomed recently…when at the end of their journey their daughter got up first and stretched her young body.”  Kafka writes about how Grete blossoms, which I think means that she is outgrowing her former life.  As literally as we think about it, she is becoming more mature because of her experience with death yet she is really leaving the old world and starting a new one…without Gregor, and that goes for the rest of the family as well.  She ultimately stretches and breaks out of her cocoon and like a butterfly transcends into a different journey, spreading her wings and flying, but in the case of the Samsa family it is what they think as leaving their tragic past.