He spends much of his time crawling around on the floor, walls, and ceiling and, upon discovering Gregor's new pastime, Grete decides to remove his furniture to give him more space.

His sister Grete is the only one willing to bring him food, which they find Gregor only likes if it is rotten. They keep Gregor locked in his room, and he begins to accept his new identity and adapt to his new body. With Gregor's unexpected transformation, his family is deprived of financial stability. Gregor's family is horrified, and his father drives him back into his room, injuring his side by shoving him when he gets stuck in the doorway. The clerk, upon seeing the transformed Gregor, flees the apartment. Gregor laboriously drags himself across the floor and opens the door. Gregor attempts to communicate with both the manager and his family, but all they can hear from behind the door is incomprehensible vocalizations. While trying to move, Gregor finds that his office manager, the chief clerk, has shown up to check on him, indignant about Gregor's unexcused absence. He sees his employer as a despot and would quickly quit his job if he were not his family's sole breadwinner and working off his bankrupt father's debts. Stuck on his back and unable to get up and leave the bed, Gregor reflects on his job as a traveling salesman and cloth merchant, which he characterizes as being full of 'temporary and constantly changing human relationships, which never come from the heart'. He initially considers the transformation to be temporary and slowly ponders the consequences of this metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a 'monstrous vermin'. The first edition in book form appeared in December 1915 in the series Der jüngste Tag, edited by Kurt Wolff. The text was first published in 1915 in the October issue of the journal Die weißen Blätter under the editorship of René Schickele. With a length of about 70 printed pages over three chapters, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. ' monstrous vermin') and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ( German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. Metamorphosis ( German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.

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