Kafka Metamorphosis

Should one decide to ignore reality, it does not simply go away. For Gregor Samsa, the lead character in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, reality does not change, even when it seems it must. The story is certainly not factual, but it is written as though it could be. Kafka ensures that the reader is submerged in the events he recounts as though they could actually happen, as though they were common. While the opening …

…worked long, arduous hours that left little time to experience life. He reflects on his so-called life acknowledging the “plague of traveling: the anxieties of changing trains, the irregular, inferior meals, the ever changing faces, never to be seen again, people with whom one has no chance to be friendly” (PAGE NUMBER NEEDED). Gregor, working to pay off his family’s debt, has resigned himself to a life full of work and void of pleasure.