Although I read this story all through high school, this
time I was reading it for a different reason: A visual reason.
Whenever I would picture Gregor, I always pictured a huge,
gross beetle/cockroach. Sometime I would go back and forth on this notion
because at times he seems very small, but also very large. I believe Gregor is
a very sad man, who was pushed around and walked on his whole life, until
eventually the natural state of his life evolved into him morphing into a bug.
His family doesn’t notice the change because they have always seen him as a bug;
a minuscule, meaningless bug. His family doesn’t appreciate him, and that is
sad. I think that it is depressing that even though he has transformed into
this large bug, all he worries about is getting to work.
At the end of the story, I believe is the saddest part: His
father pushes him into the room, and slams the door, as if to say they are done
with him. This whole story is depressing and heartbreaking because Gregor never
asked to be turned into a bug.
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