4. I think Gregor’s family blames him for their current situation because he was the only person in the family that made the money that provided for the entire family after his father’s business went under. Then all of a sudden he turns into a bug and can’t work anymore, which forces Grete to have to get a job because they won’t be able to survive and I think somehow his family thinks its his fault why he turned into a bug no one else is to blame, even though there really is not one specific thing to blame its unexplainable. Even though they have money now, it is still all his fault because they had to pull money out of savings and Grete had to work and he wouldn’t have been turned into a bug maybe these things wouldn’t have happen.
6. I think Gregor feels more relieved than sad because he was a huge burden to his sister, when she took care of him, he felt horrible all the time for putting his family in that situation. When he died I think he really felt like he was doing the family good by dying they treated him like a bug and not like family so I think he figured it would best for them if he was not in their lives anymore.
8. Gregor’s family got over his death so quickly because after a while his family feels that Gregor is not the same Gregor anymore, maybe not even Gregor at all; so they feel he is not part of the family anymore he is not their son and he is not Grete’s brother and when he was turned into a bug that’s when he really died, not when the bug in Gregor’s room died.
10. Grete called Gregor a monster because she does not feel that his is her brother anymore, he doesn’t eat the same foods, he can’t communicate with her, he looks different, he acts different he has completely changed to her there is no glimpse of Gregor in the bug it’s a whole new thing, not a person and it’s very large so she calls him a monster. I don’t think she can forgive him either, for what him turning into a bug has done to their family.
13. This chapter satirizes family life today by saying no one supports their family anymore, they shun very easily they don’t help when help is needed they don’t try to resolve problems. Most families aren’t a unit they don’t stick together anymore it’s only about the individuals, people are very selfish and don’t really care about people, sometimes in their own family.
15. I thinks his feelings are more humane now that he is a bug because his family and the rest of the world has basically shunned him, wiped him from existence. He may not have had friends and been close to his family as a human, but now as a bug it’s even worse no one cares about him and no one is interested in trying to make it easier on him, nothing he feels completely alone and he begins to have these feelings that he never experienced because even though he was miserable at least he was treated like a person, now he is not and he hates it.
16. Gregor’s family abandons him because they have given up all hope that he will ever turn back into a human and they don’t feel he is part of the family so they just leave him alone all the time pretending he does not exist because that’s the way they want it.
18. Gregor still feels love and affection for his family even after they start to forget about him because to him they will always be his family even though they don’t treat him like he is family. It’s the only besides him room before they cleaned it out that made him feel connected to his old life.
21. I think there is significance to the maid finding him instead of his family, they never check on him and they never even visit him in his room he could be dead for years and they would never know if they didn’t have a maid.
23. I think Kafka makes Gregor die because there wouldn’t be as big of an impact to the story if he was just a bug living in a room forever. The story would be insignificant if he didn’t die, I think the message of the story is family and how you can’t rely on them and without him dying the message wouldn’t be as strong and significant.
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