Characters
The Main Character is.
Who is Gregor?
What is a traveling salesman?
The theme that Gregor can't speak to anyone now.
Gregor's radical change and transformation.
What is metamorphosis?
The book is written from this point of view, allowing us to see Gregor's thoughts, but not the thoughts of others.
The sister of the main character is.
Who is Grete?
Gregor overworks himself for.
Who is his family?
The theme of the author using casual dialogue to make the strange events in the story seem normal.
What is the absurdity of life?
A word connected to the Samsa family's abandonment of Gergor.
What is alienation?
The Samsa family's perspective of Gregor after his transformation.
What is a burden?
The name of the main characters father is.
Who is Mr. Samsa?
What does Gregor turn into.
What is a bug?
When Gregor is having trouble getting rid of his furniture that he has had since childhood.
What is disconnect from body and mind?
The system of rules and regulations keeps Gergor down at his job.
What is bureaucracy?
From Gregor's insect perspective, the food that his family leaves for him only becomes appealing when it has this quality.
What is spoiled/rotten?
The name of the main characters mother is.
Who is Anna Samsa?
Gregor spends most of his time here.
What is his couch?
How Gregor feels being dehumanized.
What is despair/hopelessness?
The literary device allows us to connect to Gregor and take themes from his life, despite the fact that we'll never be in his situation.
What is allegory?
Gregor's perspective on his father changes when he sees his father in a "smart blue uniform" with gold buttons for his new job, which makes his father appear to have regained this quality.
What is dignity?
His Sister and Mother do what to his room.
What is removing the furniture?
The theme is based on his family's abandonment.
What is it that people turn on you when you're not useful?
A word meaning that something will not happen and is wild.
What is absurd?
This is the item Gregor tries to save from being removed from his room, as it is one of the last remaining linking to his human life and perspective.
What is the picture of the woman in the fur?