By this time, his mother has recovered. When she sees Gregor, she backs all the way up to the kitchen table and sits down on it. Coffee spills onto the carpet. Gregor's jaws begin snapping at the coffee uncontrollably. His mother screams and runs to the arms of her husband. Gregor runs toward the chief clerk, who is holding onto the bannister outside. Seeing him coming, the chief clerk hurries down the stairs, taking several steps at a time, and goes out the door. Meanwhile, Gregor's father seizes the walking stick that the chief clerk left behind and threatens Gregor with it, forcing him back toward his room.
When Gregor gets stuck in the doorway, his father pushes him inside. The side of Gregor's body scrapes the door frame, causing him to bleed. In the evening, his sister brings him milk with bits of bread in it. But he finds the taste of it repulsive. Grete then experiments, bringing him different kinds of food in order to discover what he likes.
No one attempts to communicate with Gregor; everyone apparently believes that in his present state he cannot understand human speech. While listening to his family members talking, Gregor learns that his father had saved some money before his business failed five years before.
At that time, Gregor began supporting the family. Gregor also learns that the family had put away some of his earnings. Whenever Grete enters his room, Gregor covers his body so she won't have to look at him. During the first two weeks of his confinement, his parents do not enter his room. They rely on Grete to report on his condition. After a time, Gregor discovers a pleasurable way to pass the time: climbing walls and hanging from the ceiling.
Grete wants to remove furniture to give Gregor more room to roam. When she asks her mother to help her, the older woman enters the room. Gregor is hiding under the couch. The mother and daughter try to move the chest of drawers. After fifteen minutes, they make no progress. His mother then says,. The climax occurs after the three men give notice and Greta says, "Father, Mother, we can't carry on like this.
Maybe you can't see it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong. In turn, he gives up on himself.
By the next morning, he is dead. The tone of the novel is objective and serious. But the attentive reader will notice that dark, subtle humor creeps into the narrative like a clown tiptoeing into a funeral.
Life sometimes confers on a human being an absurd destiny that he is powerless to escape. Kafka makes this point with a fantasy about a man who wakes up one morning with the body of a gigantic bug. Of course. But, as Kafka seems to suggest, many men and women do wake up without knowing their purpose in life and without any sense of control over the course of their life.
So, too—in many cases—do the particulars of a person in ordinary life: his religion, his race, his social status, his personality, his stand on political issues, his mental or physical condition, and so on. When one becomes different from others, he often becomes isolated from them. Consider the plight of the deformed, the mentally ill, the leprous. The Plight of the Workingman. After Gregor discovers that he has become a giant bug, one would expect him to exhibit sheer fright at his condition and to devote all his energies to finding a way to restore himself.
Instead, he worries about being late for work. Web PinkMonkey. Further Distribution Is Strictly Prohibited. The events take place entirely in the Samsa home where Gregor lives with his teenage sister Grete, his timid mother, and his surly and resentful father.
With the exception of three scenes where Gregor escapes to the hallway, every other moment takes place in his bedroom until his death. The final scenes of the story take place on a train bound for the countryside, after Gregor is dead.
The story doesn't give us a specific geographical location or historical date. With the exception of the very last paragraph where the Samsas take a trip out to the country all of the action takes place in the Samsas' apartment. We're going stir-crazy just thinking about this novella. The apartment overlooks a busy city street, and a hospital is across the way within viewing distance from Gregor's window.
The story doesn't mention whether anyone can look in. Pity the poor convalescent who looks out his or her hospital window to see Gregor twitching. He contemplates his situation and feels anxious about his family. There are multiple ways in which to interpret this symbol. Gregor likes peeking at his family through the door. It is the only time he can peacefully look at them without raising any adverse reaction.
At some point, the family has to get rid of their cook and servant girl to cut expenses. The change of workforce in the house illustrates financial struggles that worsened after Gregor became an insect. At the end of the novella, the setting plays a notable role. There, in solitude, Gregor dies thinking about his family. By analyzing the location, the reader can gain additional knowledge about the book.
The fact that the family changes the flat represents a significant change in their life. What is the setting of The Metamorphosis?
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