When Did Gregor Have These Thoughts and What Had Happened?
"This getting up so early makes anyone a complete idiot. Human beings have to have their sleep."
What did Gregor think before he fully understood that he had become an insect that first morning?
The apple lodged in Gregor's back.
What is a symbol of guilt and punishment?
This father is emotionally distant compared to tjhis father who is emotionally abusive.
Who is Rilk'es father compared to Kafka's father?
The child for whom childhood is marked by fear, shame, and emotional damage inflicted by the father compared to teh child for whom childhood is a fragile, temporary state that fades naturally with time.
Who is Kafka as a child compared to the child in Rilke's pome Duration of Childhood?
"Afternoons that he spent by himself, staring from mirror to mirror; puzzling himself with the riddle of his own name: Who? Who?-- But the others come home again, overwhelm him."
What is an indication of the search for indentity in the poem Duration of Childhood?
"The manager must be detained, calmed down, convinced, and finally won over."
What did Gregor think after the manager had seen him in bug form and was making a hasty departure?
The locked doors to Gregor's room.
What is a symbol of the family severing a human connection with Gregor?
This father wants his son locked in his room compared to this father who locks his son out on the balconey.
Who is Gregor Samsa's father compared to Kafka's father?
This child looks into a mirror in an attempt to figure out who he is compared to this child hides in teh darkness to prevent others from seeing who has has become.
Who is the child in Rilke's poem "Duration of Childhood" compared to Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis?
"From day to day he saw things even a short distance away less and less distinctly; the hospital opposite, which he used to curse because he saw so much of it, was now comlpetely beyond his range of vision."
What is an indication of both the physical change that has come over Gregor and a symbol of his isolation from the world in the form of the hospital, a place where people can be cured, but not Gregor.
"At least no one would take away this picture."
What did Gregor think when his mother and sister had started clearing his room of furniture and he wanted to keep the picture of the lady with the furs?
The picture of the woman in furs..
What is a symbol of Gregor's human desires?
This father believes he has little in common with an insect compared to this father who beleives he is has something in common with an insect.
Who is Gregor Samsa's father compared to the father in the story Gaston?
This daughter wants to squash an insect compared to this daughter who wants provides an insect with food.
Who is the daughter in the story Gaston compared to Grete in The Metamorphosis?
"And yet his sister was playing so beautifully. Her face was inclined to one side, sadly and probingly her eyes followed the lines of the music. Gregor crawled forward a little farther, holding his head close to the floor, so that it might be possible to catch her eye.Was he an animal that music could move him so?"
What is Gregor's reaction to his sister playing the viiolin for the boarders and what is the nature of his subsequent existential crisis?
"Was he an animal, tha music could move him so?"
What did Gregor think when Grete started playing the violin for the boarders and Gregor came into the living room to listen?
The furniture in the room.
What is a symbol of Gregor's human identity?
This father is dismissive of his son compared to this father who wants his son to go to work.
Who is Kafka's father compared to Gregor Samsa's father?
For this child suffering feels intensely personal compared to this child for suffering is existential and universal?
Who is Kafka as a child compared to Rilke as a child?
"After a number of fierce threats had failed, you lifted me out of my bed, carried me out onto the pavlatche* and left me awhile all alone, standing outside the locked door in my nightshirt."
What is the traumatic childhood incident Kafka describes in his letter to his father that led him to the conclusion that he was powerless as an individual?
"His conviction that he would have to disapper was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's."
What did Gregor think after the disaster of Grete's violin concert, when the family discussed getting rid of Gregor while Gregor returned to his room?
Symbolizes a world we do not understand.
What is the white plate in Gaston. (“Gastón wandered around the plate, but everything seemed wrong and he didn't know what to do or where to go.”)
This father uses silence as a form of inner contral and discipline comapred to this father who uses silence as a means of emotional rejection.
Who is the father in the story Gaston compared to Gregor Samsa's father.
This child withdraws to an inner reality comapre to this child who becomes psychologicall paralyzed.
Who is the child in Rilk'e poem "Duration of Childhood" compared to the Kafka as a child.
"They shook hands instead, as if they were strangers. He watched the huge car drive off, and then he went around the corner where he took his coffee every morning, feeling a little, he thought, like Gaston on the white plate."
What is the moment when the father in Gaston say goodbye to his daughter and subsquently realizes that he is as out of place in the world as the bug from the peach wandering about on a plate?