METAMORPHOSIS: CHAPTER 3

METAMORPHOSIS: CHAPTER 3
Discussion Questions

QUESTIONS:

1. Does Gregor’s family feel sadness at his death? Relief?
2. Why did Grete call Gregor a monster?
3. Why does Gregor still have love and affection for his family even after they forget about him?
4. Why does Grete now choose to get a job? Both of her parents are getting one, so what is the point?
5. Why did Kafka make Gregor die?
6. Why does Gregor feel depression at his family’s reaction to him?
7. Do you think they moved the furniture out of the room to kill him faster?
8. Why was his family so selfish that they couldn’t help him when he needed it the most?
9. How des Gregor’s family get over losing him so quickly?
10. How long has Gregor been in the room before he dies?

ANSWERS:

1. To me it appears that Gregor’s family felt a small amount of sadness over his death because that was their son and their brother; but at the same time, they also felt relief because they no longer had to care for him and have him n the house, placing a burden on them
2. Grete calls Gregor a monster, because she was angry and frustrated with him, and he had also scared his mother again, by crawling across the wall.
3. Gregor still has love and affection for his family, because it’s his family, and regardless of their flaws and mistakes and how they treated him in the end- he still would love them.
4. I think Grete now chose to get a job even though her parents were both getting one, because she no longer had the responsibility of caring for Gregor, and she’s becoming older and wants to get out and become her own person.
5. Kafka made Gregor die, in my opinion, because the expected thing that would have happened, would have been for him to morph back into a human again, back instead Kafka just chose for him to die, and end the story like that.
6. Gregor feels depression at his family’s reaction to him, because before he morphed into a bug and was supplying them with money- they loved him and cared for him, but as soon as that changed, that looked at him differently and started to abandon him.
7. I don’t think they moved the furniture out of the room to kill Gregor; I think their intensions were to help him adapt to his environment, in his present state, as best as they could.
8. I don’t think his family was not helping him out of selfishness, but because they weren’t accustomed to something like this happening and didn’t really know how to respond to it.
9. Gregor’s family gets over losing him so quickly, by going out as a family together, starting to look for a new place to live, and also looking for jobs.
10. Gregor was in the room at least a month before he had died.