A Literary Analysis of A Country Doctor
             "O be joyful, all you patients, The doctor's laid in bed beside you," (143) and this is the life of the country doctor; never able to be home and always trying to give more than he could. Franz Kafka uses the story of A Country Doctor to describe his life with Felice B, a young women that he stood up at the altar twice. The country doctor had a tough decision to make, as did Franz Kafka with Felice B.
             In the beginning of the story, the country doctor did not know whether to stay with Rose, his live in help, or to go to his patient. He decides to go and found a horse with the Groom and left Rose with him, although "(he) pushed his face against hers. She screamed and fled back tome; on her cheek stood out in red the marks of two rows of teeth" (137). After that event, he tried to take the Groom with him, however the Groom would not leave with him and the doctor left to go to his patient.
             Franz Kafka is using this scene to show how he wants to have his writing and Felice B at the same time. Kafka said that he could only write when he is unhappy and lonely, (however he also believed that he did not deserve to marry either.) Kafka knows that Felice wants to marry him and that she will let him continue to write. However, Kafka does not think that he can do both and leaves her behind as did the doctor leave Rose behind.
             When the country doctor reaches his patient the first thing the boy says to him is "Doctor, let me die" (138). The doctor looks at him and says that there is nothing wrong with the boy. Then he starts to ponder, letting his mind going back to home where Rose is. However, after the family of the boy talks with the doctor, he "discovered that the boy was indeed ill. In his right side, near the hip, was an open wound as big as the palm of my hand. Rose-red, in many variations of shade, dark in the hollows, lighter at...