... [the clerk]" (Kafka,4). In the beginning, his father is a dependable person yet soon changes into a dominant father who subjugates his son to his will through authority and strength when Gregor notes that "the noise in his rear sounded no longer like the voice of one single father" and "above the high stiff collar of the jacket his heavy chin protruded; under ... names, Grete and Gregor, and the fact that two are the only two full names told throughout the novel. The last name of the protagonist, Samsa, is significant to the book because it helps show the symbolic relation between the l...

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