Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis is broken into three different sections; each bring about a change in the story and expand the setting from Gregor's room to the outside world. With each change of setting comes a ... gets more harsh towards Gregor. Gregor's mother is the only person who remains fairly constant through the story. She has love for Gregor as her son and even after the metamorphosis, she still has this sense of this creature being her son even though she is disgusted by his looks. In Act I of this story Gregor awakes to find himself transformed ... ...

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... the ending indicates that women were so controlled in this time period that they could not even live a life of freedom in the seclusion of their own minds. Mrs. Mallard's metamorphosis begins when the news of her husband's death arrives. It might seem that Mrs. Mallard does not take her husband's death seriously. At first, she is stunned into tumultuous grief ... ...

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