The caregiver was forced to go through a transformation and slowly transition from a normal, human life to that of a giant bug. As this took place, the family realized the situation at hand and slowly but surely distanced themselves from the thought of Gregor and cast their emotion to the wayside to ultimately realize that the big bug living in their house was not their loved one anymore. The old saying of “no matter what, you’ll always be our boy” is the furthest possible thing from applicable to this story. As it is realized that Gregor is deadweight, and he can no longer provide the necessary work input to survive, he simply became deadweight and died. If you were to change the quote from above to try and depict the perspective of the parents, it would be something like, “you will always be our son just as long as you can provide for us and don’t turn into a giant parasite.” All jokes aside, Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” does a great job presenting how the feeling of Gregor being worthless can be cause not only his family to believe his is worthless but let that factor disrupt the ebb and flow of their life as a unit. Gregor simply did not belong and was relieved of his duties. There was nothing left for him in this world, so, while his family is continuing to live without him, he concluded his metamorphosis by moving on into the
The caregiver was forced to go through a transformation and slowly transition from a normal, human life to that of a giant bug. As this took place, the family realized the situation at hand and slowly but surely distanced themselves from the thought of Gregor and cast their emotion to the wayside to ultimately realize that the big bug living in their house was not their loved one anymore. The old saying of “no matter what, you’ll always be our boy” is the furthest possible thing from applicable to this story. As it is realized that Gregor is deadweight, and he can no longer provide the necessary work input to survive, he simply became deadweight and died. If you were to change the quote from above to try and depict the perspective of the parents, it would be something like, “you will always be our son just as long as you can provide for us and don’t turn into a giant parasite.” All jokes aside, Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” does a great job presenting how the feeling of Gregor being worthless can be cause not only his family to believe his is worthless but let that factor disrupt the ebb and flow of their life as a unit. Gregor simply did not belong and was relieved of his duties. There was nothing left for him in this world, so, while his family is continuing to live without him, he concluded his metamorphosis by moving on into the