The story handles his family's reaction to his nasty transformation. "The metamorphosis is a book about Gregor Samsa, travel clerk, turning into a giant bug creature like cockroach. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man." Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.Ī harrowing-though absurdly comic-meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. The debt Gregor intended to repay his parents symbolizes the emotional debt many adult children continue to feel towards their elderly parents for the love and care they provided."One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug." It is the parents that caused Gregor’s/Kafka’s metamorphosis. Reduced to vermin, Gregor can no longer financially benefit his parents. Thus the parents did not love him for who he was, but for his loyal willingness to undergo this exploitation. Gregor’s parents possessed a large sum of money which symbolizes the needlessness of Gregor’s exploitation. Gregor’s metamorphosis is that of Kafka’s being an obedient son, subserviently paying for his parents’ narcissistic needs with his own life, into being a disobedient one-as if he had become a ‘piece of vermin’. Kafka describes how he endured his mother and father's financial and emotional exploitation's, to the point of detaching from them and thereby ceasing to be their son (the real metamorphosis). What does it all mean? It is most probably an autobiography of how Kafka himself experienced early life living with his parents. The Metamorphosis is a story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him.
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