Characters
Is worried about being late for their train
Gregor
Spring represents
Rebirth and new beginnings
Allegory
a story in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance
Gregor's job
Traveling salesman
Charwoman's characteristics
Practical, nonjudgmental
Wants to see Gregor but is also scared
Mother
The bug/vermin
Depression
Low self-esteem
Loneliness
Disability/Feeling of being a burden
Novella
a text that is longer than a short story but not as long as a novel
Why didn't Gregor's parents support the family financially in the beginning of the story?
Gregor's mother has asthma (was sickly)
Gregor's father's business failed and he lost self confidence
The difference between being alone and lonely
One is a choice; one can be perfectly happy being alone, but feeling lonely is different for everyone (and something that everyone experiences)
Says, "If he could understand us then perhaps we might come to some agreement with him."
Father
Doors and windows
Doors: Isolation, alienation
Windows: Loss of freedom and human connection
Existentialism
a philosophy concerned with finding self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility
What was Gregor's dream?
To send Grete to music school
What is the focus of the novella's conclusion?
A general sense of hopefulness for the future
Angrily responds to not receiving treatment or living conditions up to their standards
The lodgers
Father's uniform
Rigidity and authority
Periodic sentence
has the main idea (or the most important words) at the end
What happens to Gregor over the course of the story?
He loses his humanity as his family stops caring for him
The framed picture of the lady in furs symbolizes
Desire for human connection and other comforts such as material success
Declares that the bug cannot be Gregor
Grete
Apple
Rejection from society
Disability
Defamiliarization effect
What happens when the syntax (organization or structure) of a sentence presents common things in a strange way, so the reader sees the world differently
What is Franz Kafka's relationship to Gregor, the main character of The Metamorphosis?
They have a lot in common: abusive fathers, weak mothers, worked in jobs they disliked, were rejected from their families when they stopped bringing in money
Who says in Part I, "I thought you were a quiet, dependable person, and now all at once you seem bent on making a disgraceful exhibition of yourself."
The chief clerk