... new life he grows and changes, for better or worse, but realizes many unprecedented things over the course of the endeavor. "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this first sentence Gregor leads us into his story. Gregor only gets a few words off to his family before ... with him..." for this Gregor is beaten back into his room, for it seemed an attack. In less than an hour Gregor has transformed, in his families eyes, into an animal. Often misunderstandings occur in everyday life, but they can b...

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... further Kafka's theme of isolation. Kafka instantly sets a fantastically absurd and bizarre mood within the first few lines of the story: "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin (Kafka 433)." This leaves the reader instantly disturbed. Futhermore, neither the narrator, nor Gregor, seems too concerned with the man ... his room to show his boss and family the transformation he has undergone. When Gregor talks, no one understands a word; his boss states that he has "the voice of an animal (439)." Gregor is c...

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