One night Grete plays her violin for the boarders. The family takes on three borders for additional income, and Gregor feels even more ignored. His family members are exhausted from working, and Gregor feels neglected. Gregor's father pelts Gregor with apples, one of which severely injures him.Īnother month passes while Gregor recovers from his injury. Gregor's father returns home and finds Gregor panicking in the dining room. He climbs the wall and places himself over his print of the lady with the muff, which shocks his mother when she returns to the room, causing her to faint. Grete and the mother plan to move Gregor's old furniture out so he can crawl more freely, but Gregor decides that he wants to keep his furniture, which links him to his humanity. Another month passes, and then Gregor's mother wants to come to help Grete and support Gregor. One day Grete sees Gregor out of his hiding place and is disturbed. About a month passes, with Grete taking care of Gregor less and less attentively. Gregor feels upset and sorry that he cannot support them anymore. Gregor overhears the family talking about their finances, and determining that they will have to go back to work, now that he can no longer provide for them. The following morning Grete brings Gregor rotting food, and he eats hungrily. Gregor resolves to help his family deal with the trouble he is causing them with his metamorphosis. Gregor finds that Grete has brought him some fresh food, which does not appeal to him. Gregor injures himself when he squeezes back through the doorway into his bedroom. But no one understands the speech his family is shocked at his appearance, and the Chief Clerk runs away. Gregor finally opens his door with difficulty and gives the Chief Clerk a long speech about his dutifulness to his job. His boss, the Chief Clerk, arrives, and scolds him for his tardiness and strange behavior, even suggesting that his job might be in danger. His mother, father, and sister Grete realize something is amiss and knock at his door, but he cannot produce human speech and also cannot open the door. He realizes he has missed his train and gets acquainted with his awkward new body as he worries about his stressful salesman job. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up one morning and discovers that he has transformed into a giant cockroach. The maid- She is The Samsas’ original maid who is terrified by Gregor and begs the family to fire her. The boarders- there are three temporary boarders in the Samsas’ house. The office manager- he is Gregor’s boss who is Distrustful and overbearing and insinuates that Gregor has been doing a poor job at work. The charwoman- she is an elderly widow and the Samsa family’s cleaning lady. the mother is torn between her love for Gregor and her horror at Gregor’s new state. The mother- she is Gregor’s mother who is Frail and distressed. The failure of his business has left him exhausted and emotionally broken, and he is forced to return to work again after Gregor’s metamorphosis. Grete Samsa- she is Gregor’s sister who is a young woman on the cusp of adulthood. Gregor hates his job but keeps it because of the obligations he feels to pay off his father’s debt and care for his family. Gregor Samsa- is a traveling salesman and the protagonist of the story.
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