Characters
Is worried about being late for their train
Gregor
Spring represents
Rebirth and new beginnings
Imminent
About to happen
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
Omission
An act of leaving out
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
Intervene
What was Gregor's dream?
To send Grete to music school
How does Gregor entertain himself in his room?
He starts crawling up the walls and the ceiling of his room.
Angrily responds to not receiving treatment or living conditions up to their standards
The lodgers
Father's uniform
Rigidity and authority
Conservatorium
School of music
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
Declares that the bug cannot be Gregor
Grete
Apple
Rejection from society
Disability
Masticating
Chewing
What happens shortly after the clock tower strikes three?
Gregor dies
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 Manager