This is a book about becoming a man, you will be treated like a wienerroach unless you have some monetary value to society. If you fail to conform even your own family will turn against you. Women are expected to get married. You are expected to die.
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Yeah, Gregor was thinking about them all the time and they hated him. Ath the end for them he was a expense, nothing else.
It's about being israeli but loving Nietzsche and being unable to reconcile the two. The successful version of this is Ayn Rand.
A wienerroach is an insect that is flat in shape with large legs, and Gregor is anything but flat: he is convex on both sides, belly and back, and his legs are small. He approaches a wienerroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.) Further, he has strong mandibles. He uses these organs to turn the key in a lock while standing erect on his hind legs, on his third pair of legs (a strong little pair), and this gives us the length of his body, which is about three feet long. In the course of the story he gets gradually accustomed to using his new appendages—his feet, his feelers. This brown, convex, dog-sized beetle is very broad.
In the original German text the old charwoman calls him Mistkäfer, a "dung beetle." It is obvious that the good woman is adding the epithet only to be friendly. He is not, technically, a dung beetle. He is merely a big beetle. (I must add that neither Gregor nor Kafka saw that beetle any too clearly.)
>Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings
Red it like 5-8 years ago so memory is fussy and was wondering, if it was expressed why he never embraced his new form? While Gregor became a vermin, his form was far from being some feeble creature.
>PROVIDING FOR OTHER PEOPLE AND SACRIFICING FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOURSELF IS ... LE BAD!!!
If you feel this is false then just follow in the MC's footsteps.
Gud buk.
Made me realize my opinions are my own and convincing someone in my reading group they misinterpreted it is as futile as old Sisyphus' punishment.
Society is not the measure of a man, so I reject the book assuming your interpretation of it is accurate.
What is the measure of a man?
Myself and those who I allow in my close inner circle of respectable beings.
Interesting, I came away with nearly the inverse view
Which is?
He had already become a bug in his obsequence but was only treated as such when his ability to fund the family was exhausted. He had never become a man during his life.
But that's not an interpretation, you are just plain wrong. first of all, the mother, sister and father all act clearly extremely shocked when they see him as a bug, a reaction that would be reserved for their first time seeing him in that state. Secondly, his first thoughts on that morning were that he'd be late for work. It's his first time being unable to attend work, which is directly the result of his transformation that happened the night before.
Would have to read it again but it's pretty obvious the only joy he had in his life was his sister, and he was already hollowed out as a person before completing his transformation.
what was the metaphor behind the book? I re-read it last two weeks
Living only for work makes you so miserable that you will transform into the DIE VERWANDLUNG
I saw it as not being acceptable to be yourself. People love you until your ugliness shows and your disdain for being alive is expressed.
yeah it's weird how the work life matters in the book.