In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Nicholas Ray's film Rebel Without a Cause, the main characters face various forms of alienation. Gregor Samsa is alienated from his job, his family, his humanity and even his body. The character Jim Stark is also alienated in many of the same ways.
             Gregor Samsa is alienated from his job because he had never missed work before in many years. He turned into an insect and therefore could not attend work. The head chief then came to check on him and he wasn't ready for what he saw. Jim Stark is alienated from his job also in that his job being school. He is the new guy in town and doesn't have many friends. You can tell he is new because he steps on the school emblem on the first day. He is, in a way an outcast at his school. His only friend is a guy named Plato and I wouldn't consider him normal. I think that Jim and Buzz are the same kind of people and that is why they can not be friends.
             Gregor is alienated from his family too. They used to riley on him to bring home the money in the family but now that he can't go to work his family just thinks he isn't worth anything now. His sister started taking care of him at the beginning but when she quite and he then had to cover himself with a sheet he didn't fell wanted and he died. Jim is alienated from his family too. His dad is a wimp and his mom is the one taking care of the family. His dad wears a girly housewife apron to clean the house. Therefore Jim doesn't have a male role model. In the movie, Jim asks his dad what he should do if he needs to prove his manhood and his dad doesn't know what to say so he gives him a little wimp answer.
             Gregor is also alienated from his humanity and his body. He wakes up and is an insect. Somehow he got transformed into a bug. He can no longer do anything that a human can do. He struggles to open the door. He just b
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