"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" (345). With this simple sentence, Kafka takes us into his bizarre world that deals with a strange sort of alienation and transformation. Franz Kafka's, "The Metamorphosis," is a story that tells of a man's feeling of insignificance, of losing himself and losing his identity by not taking time for him. It is a story of one major transformation that leads to other changes, and when faced with the unknown, some things stay the same.
             The reader has a window into Gregor's mind, as most of the story is told from his point of view. We never know exactly how he feels about becoming an insect; it's as if this small detail isn't important to him. Or maybe, we don't know how he feels about it, because, to him, being an insect isn't so different from being Gregor.
             He describes his life as, "the trouble of constant traveling, of worrying about train connections, the bed and irregular meals, casual acquaintances that are always new and never become intimate friends" (346). Unfortunately, before the metamorphosis, he spent all of his time working as a traveling salesman and never took the time to form any intimate relationships. His mother mentions this to the chief clerk, explaining that Gregor thinks of nothing but work, and it almost makes her angry that he never goes out in the evenings. She then tells of the few nights he spent cutting a picture of a woman out of a magazine, and making a frame for it. He hung this framed picture up on his bedroom wall.
             Gregor had become the family's only source of income when his father's company went bankrupt. While he worked himself tirelessly to pay off his father's debts, the rest of his family ate leisurely meals and read the newspaper, sometimes for the entire day. Gregor's paycheck...