Kafka’s Metamorphosis I read Metamorphosis last night and…
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Kafka’s Metamorphosis
I read Metamorphosis last night and it has made me so angry.
The Beginning: three voluntary deadbeats and one worker. No one complains. Everyone is optimistic about the future.
The Middle: one involuntary dead weight and three workers. Everyone complains. No one is optimistic about the future.
The End: Three workers and no more deadweight or deadbeats. No one complains. Everyone is optimistic about the future. I think Mom and Dad are especially optimistic about daughter getting married because then maybe they can mooch off of future son-in-law. They’re thinking they’re going to snag a rich guy because she’s so sexy/beautiful.
It just makes me so angry that they could all see how that job was crushing Gregor, yet they chose not to work and help him. They could have gotten jobs all along and put their money towards paying off the family debt so Gregor could quit his miserable job sooner, but they didn’t. I understand the daughter not having a job, because she was only 17 and the situation wasn’t dire before the metamorphosis. But his parents?? Especially his dad, who had savings that could have taken years off of Gregor’s work constraints? What was he even good for? He sat around doing nothing all day letting his son do everything when he could have been helping pay the family’s debts. Why did the family help love and take care of that secretive deadbeat, then not love and take care of Gregor? Why wasn’t Gregor loved the way the father was loved by that family?
I know he was a bug, but if they would have just paid attention to him, they would have realized he was still Gregor. He was placing a sheet over himself. He was hiding when he knew they’d be coming in so he wouldn’t disturb them.
Was it just because he was unsightly? Is that the difference between him not being able to work and being discarded, and his dad choosing not to work and being respected?
And I know the story said that the dad was old and out of breath and could hardly walk, etc. but I think that’s just Gregor having so much sympathy for his father that he can’t see the truth that his dad is a deadbeat. He can’t see, “My dad is able to work and it would help me a lot if he did, but he’s choosing not to.” So instead he chooses to see, “My dad can’t work.”
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I read Metamorphosis last night and it has made me so angry.
The Beginning: three voluntary deadbeats and one worker. No one complains. Everyone is optimistic about the future.
The Middle: one involuntary dead weight and three workers. Everyone complains. No one is optimistic about the future.
The End: Three workers and no more deadweight or deadbeats. No one complains. Everyone is optimistic about the future. I think Mom and Dad are especially optimistic about daughter getting married because then maybe they can mooch off of future son-in-law. They’re thinking they’re going to snag a rich guy because she’s so sexy/beautiful.
It just makes me so angry that they could all see how that job was crushing Gregor, yet they chose not to work and help him. They could have gotten jobs all along and put their money towards paying off the family debt so Gregor could quit his miserable job sooner, but they didn’t. I understand the daughter not having a job, because she was only 17 and the situation wasn’t dire before the metamorphosis. But his parents?? Especially his dad, who had savings that could have taken years off of Gregor’s work constraints? What was he even good for? He sat around doing nothing all day letting his son do everything when he could have been helping pay the family’s debts. Why did the family help love and take care of that secretive deadbeat, then not love and take care of Gregor? Why wasn’t Gregor loved the way the father was loved by that family?
I know he was a bug, but if they would have just paid attention to him, they would have realized he was still Gregor. He was placing a sheet over himself. He was hiding when he knew they’d be coming in so he wouldn’t disturb them.
Was it just because he was unsightly? Is that the difference between him not being able to work and being discarded, and his dad choosing not to work and being respected?
And I know the story said that the dad was old and out of breath and could hardly walk, etc. but I think that’s just Gregor having so much sympathy for his father that he can’t see the truth that his dad is a deadbeat. He can’t see, “My dad is able to work and it would help me a lot if he did, but he’s choosing not to.” So instead he chooses to see, “My dad can’t work.”
#entertainment
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