Plot and Structure
This event starts the main conflict of the novella.
What is Gregor waking up transformed into an insect?
Gregor’s main job before the transformation is this.
What is traveling salesman?
Gregor’s transformation most strongly symbolizes this condition.
What is alienation or dehumanization?
The novella is told mainly in this point of view.
What is third-person limited?
“Casual acquaintances that are always new and never become intimate friends” reveals Gregor’s sense of this.
What is loneliness or isolation?
This stage of plot is best represented by Gregor’s transformation at the start of the story.
What is the inciting incident?
At the start of the novella, this family member cares for Gregor most directly.
Who is Grete?
The story suggests that Gregor was already this before he became an insect.
What is isolated?
This point of view helps the reader understand Gregor’s private thoughts and feelings.
What is third-person limited?
When Grete stops calling Gregor her brother and refers to him as “it,” this shows this shift.
What is Gregor’s dehumanization?
This event is often identified as the major turning point because Gregor’s decline becomes irreversible afterward.
What is Gregor being injured by his father with the apple?
This family member reacts with the most physical aggression toward Gregor.
Who is Mr. Samsa, Gregor’s father?
Gregor’s room can be read as a symbol of this.
What is imprisonment or confinement?
Kafka’s calm, unemotional description of Gregor’s transformation creates this tone.
What is a dispassionate tone?
If Gregor worries more about missing work than about becoming an insect, the reader can infer this about him.
What is he has been conditioned to value duty over self?
This event functions more as the resolution than the climax.
What is Gregor’s death?
Gregor had planned to do this for Grete before his transformation.
What is send her to the conservatory to study violin?
The apple stuck in Gregor’s body most strongly represents lasting injury caused by this.
What is family violence and rejection?
Kafka’s calm treatment of absurd and painful events helps create this effect.
What is dark humor?
If the family becomes more independent only after Gregor can no longer work, the reader can infer this criticism.
What is the family depended too heavily on Gregor and valued his usefulness more than his humanity?
After Gregor dies, the family does this, showing the story’s final resolution.
What is they leave the apartment and begin thinking about a better future?
Grete’s final attitude toward Gregor is best described with this word.
What is rejection?
A reader could best argue that Kafka uses Gregor’s transformation as a metaphor for this larger human experience.
What is being treated as less than human when you no longer serve a social purpose?
The narration briefly moving beyond Gregor’s direct experience is important because it allows readers to understand this.
What is the family’s perspective and life after Gregor’s death?
The strongest shared idea in Gregor’s treatment by his family is that love in the novella is often shown to be this.
What is conditional?