The metamorphosis by F Kafka?

Question

I read this years ago in high school and I have been thinking about it alot lately, I want to know from you what you think the metamorphosis represents, how did you reach your conclusion, with your analytical mind, or do you feel you identify with Samsa with a situation of your own?

Answer 1

I believe it represented his loss of identity. It is a story of depression and insanity. He convinced himself that he was so insignificant that he could not exist on a human level. Instead he became a cockroach.

Answer 2

well, I also read this years ago. However it caused great impression on me. To answer your question, The metamorphosis represents the internal psychological change that one my feel during life. At times we feel low, little, ugly and disgusting like a bug.
The novel takes the internal transformation and feeling to a physical and more dramatic level.
The bug tries to overcome the difficulties of life. It is the clear struggle of us as humans beings when faced with the "Emptiness of existence" as the exentialist call it.

Answer 3

I think that major metamorphosis was not Gregor's physical transformation to a cockroach, but his inner transformation, when Gregor was in his humanistic form he didn't not care to meet his needs, he thought little of his future and his pleasure and thought only for providing for his family, but when he became a cockroach we saw some snippets of him obliging his pleasure and desire, when eating rotten food, when taking pleasure in creeping on the wall and when he stuck himself on the frame he previously made not allowing his mother and sister to take it away with the rest of the furniture. Another transformation or metamorphosis is apparent in the family that transforms from being dependent on Gregor to being independent and finding jobs for themselves when he becomes unable to work with them. They transformed from being pesticides dependent to Gregor's single-handed hard working to being independent.