the violin, should be sent next year to study at the Conservatorium, despite the great expense that would entail" (973). Gregor's devotion to his sisters' music is however, unusual because the lodgers residing with the family act as though she is not very talented. Kafka illustrates this when he states: "they were making it more than obvious that they had been disappointed in their expectation of hearing good or enjoyable violin-playing, that they had had more than enough of the performance and only out of courtesy suffered a continued
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