the metamorphosis new edition franz kafka

To secure their livelihood, the family takes three tenants into their apartment. He is increasingly neglected by his family and his room becomes used for storage. Gregor suffers from his injuries for several weeks and takes very little food. One of them is lodged into a sensitive spot in his back and severely wounds him. His father returns home from work and angrily tosses apples at Gregor. As Grete rushes to assist her mother, Gregor follows her and is hurt by a medicine bottle falling on his face. His mother loses consciousness at the sight of Gregor clinging to the image to protect it. He desperately tries to save a particularly-loved portrait on the wall of a woman clad in fur. She and her mother begin taking furniture away, but Gregor finds their actions deeply distressing. Discovering Gregor's new pastime, Grete decides to remove some of the furniture to give Gregor more space. Gregor begins to accept his new identity and begins crawling on the floor, walls and ceiling.

Although Gregor's sister Grete now shies away from the sight of him, she takes to supplying him with food, which they find he can only eat rotten. With Gregor's unexpected incapacitation, the family is deprived of their financial stability. Gregor's family is horrified, and his father drives him back into his room under the threat of violence. The manager, upon seeing the transformed Gregor, flees the apartment. Gregor laboriously drags himself across the floor and opens the door. Gregor attempts to communicate with both the manager and his family, but all they can hear from behind the door is incomprehensible vocalizations. While trying to move, Gregor finds that his office manager, the chief clerk, has shown up to check on him, indignant about Gregor's unexcused absence. He sees his employer as a despot and would quickly quit his job were he not his family's sole breadwinner and working off his bankrupt father's debts.

Unable to get up and leave the bed, Gregor reflects on his job as a traveling salesman and cloth merchant, which he characterizes as an exhausting and never-ending traffic. He initially considers the transformation to be temporary and slowly ponders the consequences of this metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a 'monstrous vermin'.

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The metamorphosis new edition franz kafka