One night Grete plays her violin for the lodgers. The family takes on three lodgers for additional income, and Gregor feels even more ignored. His family members are exhausted from working, and Gregor feels neglected. Gregor's father pelts Gregor with apples, one of which severely injures him.Īnother month passes while Gregor recovers from his injury. Gregor's father returns home and finds Gregor panicking in the dining room. He climbs the wall and places himself over his print of the lady with the muff, which shocks his mother when she returns to the room, causing her to faint. Grete and the mother plan to move Gregor's old furniture out so he can crawl more freely, but Gregor decides that he wants to keep his furniture, which links him to his humanity. Another month passes, then Gregor's mother wants to come help Grete and support Gregor. One day Grete sees Gregor out of his hiding place and is disturbed. About a month passes, with Grete taking care of Gregor less and less attentively.

Gregor feels upset and sorry that he can't support them anymore. Gregor overhears the family talking about their finances, and determining that they will have to go back to work, now that he can no longer provide for them. The following morning Grete brings Gregor rotting food, and he eats hungrily. Gregor resolves to help his family deal with the trouble he's causing them with his metamorphosis. Gregor finds that Grete has brought him some fresh food, which doesn't appeal to him.

Gregor injures himself when he squeezes back through the doorway into his bedroom. But no one understands the speech, his family is shocked at his appearance, and the Chief Clerk runs away. Gregor finally opens his door with difficulty and gives the Chief Clerk a long speech about his dutifulness to his job. His boss, the Chief Clerk, arrives, and scolds him for his tardiness and strange behavior, even suggesting that his job might be in danger. His mother, father, and sister Grete realize something's amiss and knock at his door, but he finds he can't produce human speech and also can't open the door. He realizes he's missed his train, and gets acquainted with his awkward new body as he worries about his stressful salesman job. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up one morning and discovers that he's transformed into a giant cockroach (or some similar oversized, insect-like vermin).

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