![]() ![]() Gregor's family is horrified, and his father drives him back into his room under the threat of violence. The manager, upon seeing the transformed Gregor, flees the apartment. Gregor laboriously drags himself across the floor and opens the door. ![]() Gregor attempts to communicate with both the manager and his family, but all they can hear from behind the door is incomprehensible vocalizations. While trying to move, Gregor finds that his office manager, the chief clerk, has shown up to check on him, indignant about Gregor's unexcused absence. He sees his employer as a despot and would quickly quit his job were he not his family's sole breadwinner and working off his bankrupt father's debts. ![]() Unable to get up and leave the bed, Gregor reflects on his job as a traveling salesman and cloth merchant, which he characterizes as an exhausting and never-ending traffic. He initially considers the transformation to be temporary and slowly ponders the consequences of this metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". Here's a simple plot to The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka You should grab it and read it to experience it yourself. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a real classic. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]()
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