I think of the short stories I've read, the metamorphosis is one of the most complex...It's kind of hard to relate to someone from that country and time period, and understand why he would be considered a "pest" The story makes you wonder if he actually has transformed into this cockroach, which still wants to work and then slowly turns into a worthless being who is unwanted. Or maybe he is simply waking up one day to find, perhaps subconsciously, that he does not want to live this way anymore, and is a burden to his family although he loves them. The title confuses you to no end, you would think that the metamorphosis would involve him slowly turning into a cockroach over the story, and becoming useless to his family, but no, he just wakes up that way. The author makes it seem easy to accept that he just wakes up this way, and that his family would right out accept it, although not happily. Why in the world did this happen to the man? He seems to want nothing more than to make his family happy, especially his sister, yet he is allowed to degrade into a tiny insect, whom his family contemplates killing numerous times...and his sister's blow of great neglect kills him...Perhaps the metamorphosis is the family, stricken by what they believe to be poverty (although in the end they discover all of their problems were in their mind basically) and they evolve to the point where they must blame one member of the family, whom they depended on for sustanence...It is a very confusing story...
IT HAPPENED TO ME ONCE, I WAS LUCKIER. MOE MOE DANA.
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