Metamorphosis
Author: Franz Kafka
Narrator: Bob Neufeld
Genre: Short Stories, Classics
Book description (from Scribd): When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.
Thoughts:
It starts off as overly absurd. Gregor wakes up feeling off and is unable to make it to the train that takes him to work on time. We spend the first few pages of him struggling to decide what to do about the fact. He is worried that his boss is going to be angry, that they will not believe him to be ill. It is such inane thing to worry about.
When he discovers he has changed, initially his family and his manager are able to understand him, yet suddenly when they are about to see him they stop. No one can understand him anymore.
The manager, the serving girls in their house, the family are scandalized, disgusted by the mere sight of him. Initially, the family tries to take care of him, they try to help him out by making him as comfortable as they can.
Yet they never stop to try to understand him or communicate. Taking care of Gregor begins to be a chore no one wants to deal with. They seem to think he can no longer understand them because they never tried to communicate with him. The whole family is extremely selfish. In the beginning Gregor was the only provider for the whole family allowing his father to rest at home and not have to worry about earning a living, his mother a nice stay in wife and his sister to dedicate her time to herself; with the sudden change they all have to make bigger efforts to sustain themselves and they realize they can. When they realize they don't actually need Gregor they start to see the transformed member of the family as a chore.
It is horrible the way they treat the one member of the family that took care of them when he was able to. And when he no longer was able to they turned their backs on him.
Horrible people.
In part, it was very short or maybe it was like it was missing something, the family didn't really feel remorse or guilt, they never learned that their actions were wrong, it felt like at least something was missing to teach them that lesson.
Narrator: Bob Neufeld
Genre: Short Stories, Classics
Book description (from Scribd): When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.
Thoughts:
It starts off as overly absurd. Gregor wakes up feeling off and is unable to make it to the train that takes him to work on time. We spend the first few pages of him struggling to decide what to do about the fact. He is worried that his boss is going to be angry, that they will not believe him to be ill. It is such inane thing to worry about.
When he discovers he has changed, initially his family and his manager are able to understand him, yet suddenly when they are about to see him they stop. No one can understand him anymore.
The manager, the serving girls in their house, the family are scandalized, disgusted by the mere sight of him. Initially, the family tries to take care of him, they try to help him out by making him as comfortable as they can.
Yet they never stop to try to understand him or communicate. Taking care of Gregor begins to be a chore no one wants to deal with. They seem to think he can no longer understand them because they never tried to communicate with him. The whole family is extremely selfish. In the beginning Gregor was the only provider for the whole family allowing his father to rest at home and not have to worry about earning a living, his mother a nice stay in wife and his sister to dedicate her time to herself; with the sudden change they all have to make bigger efforts to sustain themselves and they realize they can. When they realize they don't actually need Gregor they start to see the transformed member of the family as a chore.
It is horrible the way they treat the one member of the family that took care of them when he was able to. And when he no longer was able to they turned their backs on him.
Horrible people.
In part, it was very short or maybe it was like it was missing something, the family didn't really feel remorse or guilt, they never learned that their actions were wrong, it felt like at least something was missing to teach them that lesson.
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