Quotes From The Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka

Kelvin Bennett

Mr. Laviano

English 2/Block 2

Character Analysis

Due Date: 5/11/23

Changing Of the Character Franz Kafka, the author of The Metamorphosis, was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, Bohemia, and died on June 3, 1924. He was a middle-class Jew Kafka studied law at the University of Prague; Kafka also worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. Kafka had a problematic relationship with his parents; his mother, Julie, was a devoted homemaker who lacked the intellectual depth to understand her son's dreams of becoming a writer. Kafka's father, Hermann, had a forceful personality that often overwhelmed Kafka's home. He was a business success, making his living retailing men's and women's clothes. Prague's working-class

This quote shows how Gregor let other people walk over him, and by him letting people do that, it was causing his metamorphosis. Kafka concludes, “The sister even left the mother, pushed herself away from her chair, as if she would sooner sacrifice her mother than remain in Gregor’s vicinity, and rushed behind her father who, excited merely by her behavior,also stood up and half raised his arms in front of the sister as though to protect her. But Gregor did not have any notion of wishing to create problems for anyone and certainly not for his sister “(Kafka 69). The meaning of the novella title was you shouldn’t let other people walk through you and take advantage of you; if you do, they will keep doing it until you say no. The meaning of the quote is that Gregor's sister was trying to get rid of him. After Gregor gave her all of his trust, she still backstabbed him. His faith in his sister was so strong that after she said that, he still didn’t do anything about it. After all, he didn’t want to create problems with his sister because he loved and trusted her so

Direct characterization is when the reader is told what the character is like and how they act. An example of Gregor being direct is, “To spare her even this sight, one day he dragged the sheet on his back onto the couch (this task took him four hours) and arranged it in such a way that he was now completely concealed and his sister, even if she bent down, could not see him” (Kafka 40). The way Gregor was being direct in that quote was that he dragged the sheet on his back onto the couch and arranged it so that his sister could not see him; that is how the author shows his personality. Another way Gregor was being direct is when he said, “But I must not stay in bed uselessly,' said Gregor to himself” (Kafka 8). Gregor did not want to stay in his bed doing nothing when he knew he could be doing something and being active. That quote shows how Gregor thought about being lazy and how he was