Metamorphosis Chapter 3 questions

1. The family didn’t help him when they needed him the most because he was different. He was a bug and they were scared of him.

3. I don’t think they moved the furniture to kill him faster, I think that they were trying to get him to open up and not hide so that he would turn back into a human sooner. They didn’t know what would happen because of moving it. I don’t think they wanted anything to happen to him.

4. Gregor’s family doesn’t know the reasoning behind him turning into a bug and they just blame him because that’s all they can think of to do.

10. I think that Grete calls Gregor a monster because he isn’t himself anymore and she was scared of him.

11. I think the family is more quiet during meals now then when Gregor is with them because they don’t want to talk about Gregor and they don’t want to have it look like they are blaming anyone even though it isn’t anyone’s fault.

13. You can argue that the chapter symbolizes that American families today don’t respect each other and don’t support each other. People would shun a family member if they were a bug, or just different. The fact that they are living off one person also shows families today. People are too lazy to find jobs and they just let someone else do their work for them.

19. I think Kafka chose the violin to play because it is a somber instrument. Grete loves her brother but when she sees him as a bug she is scared and he dies causing her to be somber.

21. The family doesn’t want anything to do with Gregor now that he is a bug. And the maid is working for the family and that is why she finds him, it seems like the family stopped caring about him enough to check on him and actually accept Gregor.