keeping up

     I found that this style of classroom work was hard to keep up with, the post came fast and furious and thoughts that I had were already being discussed. when going into the character room I found that the most interesting topic was Gregor himself and that in a sense his transformation may not have been a real one but a psychological one. His father was uncaring for the fate of his bread winner and his sister who in the beginning of the book really wanted to care for him gave up on him as well. I guess that is part of the irony of the story you are alone in this world, I mean Gregor changed alone in his room and died alone in his room. When I went into the lecture room it was the similarities between Kafka and Gregor the both were expected to make money for the family but in the end they became helpless and a burden.

      I  have several questions on the book itself that I did not find answered in the db boards or in the chat rooms.  My first question is why did Gregor stay he could have left to fend for himself, but that is more than likely a wrong because in the book it was stated that the could barely get out of his own bedroom door. My first impression on the book which I read twice was how uncaring his family was,
I think that they knew it was Gregor but that he had transformed into this hideous bug that seemed to know what pleased them and what did not. He would hide under a couch to spare his sister the sight of him, and he would show them that rotten food is what he liked to eat.  But its like they lost interest in what needed to be done and only cared for themselves. At some point his room became a dumping ground for things that they did not use anymore it was dust covered and filthy. Even at the end they were happy that he had died his father even praising god that it was over and then they could move on with they're lives.