A Country Doctor Kafka Analysis

A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka is the first short story that gives me a lot of goose bumps. The story itself is not about kind of serial murder stories, but it is more about a semi-ghost story (?)—I am not sure whether this is a ghost story or thriller story, but there is a mystical impression contained in it; the story has a gothic impression like most of Edgar Allan Poe 's works, but the feel is different.

The first time I read the short story, I don’t really understand the meaning of the story. The plot is so elusive; as if the story moves from one scene to another scene without any prior notice. The story begins with the necessity of a doctor to examine his patient in the village, but unfortunately his horse died on the previous day; and he doubted there would be people who would lend him a horse in that bad-evening

All the settings applied in the story really fit and able to sink in every reader 's mind, so that the reader can visualize clearly the circumstances in the story.

In my opinion, the purpose of gothic theme of this story which is associated with the title "A Country Doctor", the author wants to explore the main character with gothic theme itself. How the main character dealt directly with mystical situation that happened and how he responded to it.

Overall the story is quite interesting and, of course, very strange. When I read the beginning of the story, although I cannot capture some parts of the story, but I can get its mystique content. Even, at the first reading, I never have a thought mysterious groom is a ghost; I still can feel a thriller feeling, from all the settings disclosed in the story the mystical impression can already be felt.

In his writing, Kafka wrote it in a very different way, and it is the primer appeal for the