Kafka's The metamorphoses

Kafka is the author of 'The Metamorphosis' in 1912, taking three weeks to make up the story. While he had articulated earlier approval with the work, he shortly found it to be faulty, even calling the conclusion 'unreadable.' But whatsoever his own estimation might have been, the small story has turned into one of the most generally read and analyzed works of twentieth-century writing. Loneliness and isolation are at the heart of this strange story of a man altered overnight into a sort of beetle. In difference to much of Kafka's literature, 'The Metamorphosis' has no logic of dissatisfaction. It is officially structured into three Roman-numbered sections, with each segment having its own pinnacle. A number of themes run throughout the narrative, but at the midpoint are the ancestral bonds necessarily affected by the enormous alteration in the story's main character, Gregor Samsa (Gilman, 71-79).

Whilst the father-son bond in the narrative seems to be a vital theme, the association between Gregor and his sister Grete is possibly the most exclusive. It is Grete, after all, with whom the metamorphosed Gregor has any bond, recommending the Kafka planned to lend at least some implication to their affiliation. Grete's implication is found in her shifting bond with her brother. It is Grete's altering actions, emotions, and verbal communication toward her brother, attached with her attainment to maturity that seems to correspond Gregor's own metamorphosis. This alteration symbolizes her metamorphosis outline adolescence into maturity but at the same time it points the final termination of Gregor(Kafka, 12-15). Thus definite symmetry is to be set up in 'The Metamorphosis': whilst Gregor falls in the middle of misery, Grete goes up to a self-sufficient, sexual female.

It is Grete who originally tries carefully to do anything she can for Gregor. She tries to find out what he eats, to make him feel at ease, and to foresee his desires. In an act of kindness and love Grete, toward Gregor, 'brought him a wide assortment of things, all spread out on old newspaper: old, half-rotten vegetables; bones left over from the evening meal, caked with congealed white sauce; some raisins and almonds; a piece of cheese, which two days before Gregor had declared inedible; a plain slice of bread, a slice of bread and butter, and one with butter and salt'(Kafka, 36-39). Besides being the only member of the family still willing to face Gregor daily, she is also the family representative of Gregor, in a sense, to a mother who doesn't understand and a father who is hostile and opposing. The father is physically violent toward his metamorphosed Gregor, pushing him through a door in Part I: '...when from behind his father gave him a strong push which was literally a deliverance and he flew far into the room, bleeding freely'(Kafka, 25-29). Grete appears to concentrate on protecting Gregor from this antagonistic father and an indecisive mother. In Part II, when Grete leads her mother into Gregor's room for the first time, we see ...