Family
Symbolism and Themes
Gregor's Social Life
Side Characters
Vocabulary
100

This person cried when first seeing Gregor

Who is Mr. Samsa?

100

After this event, fresh air appeared

What is Gregor's death?

100

Gregor’s job

What is a traveling cloth salesman?

100

This person ran out the building after discovering Gregor

Who is Mr. Manager?

100

Unhappiness or pain

What is distress?

200

Grete's job

What is a salesgirl?

200

Gregor’s activities that revealed he was beginning to be comfortable in his new body

What is crawling across the walls and hanging from the ceiling?

200

Gregor’s past activities at the dinner table

What is reading the newspaper and studying his travel schedules?

200

The meal that was served to the lodgers

What is meat and potatoes?

200

Act of making something better or less painful

What is amelioration?

300

Mrs. Samsa does not have a job because of this

What is asthma?

300

The manager called Gregor this when he did not open the door

What is pigheaded?

300

Gregor's family began to call him this

What is "it"?

300

The person who gets the locksmith

Who is Anna?

300

Gregor felt this toward the bowl of milk

What is aversion?

400

Mrs. Samsa sewed these for a fashion shop

What are undergarments?

400

This person said, "We must get rid of it... when people have to work as hard as we all do, they cannot also tolerate this endless torment"

Who is Grete?

400

Gregor's rank in the military

What is a lieutenant? 

400

The person who accused Gregor of stealing

Who is the chief?

400

Gregor was in this state after scurrying under the couch

What is asphyxiation?

500

Once Gregor's family did this, he symbolized trash

What is filling Gregor's room with garbage?

500

Symbolized Gregor's former humanity

What is the picture of the woman in fur?

500

Gregor's plan after he paid off his parents' debt

What is a 5-6 year break?

500

The place in which the cashier, the person Gregor liked, works

What is a hat shop?

500

Decorative woodworking

What is fretwork?

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