"The Metamorphosis" Chapter 3

Insects are usually considered pests in our world, when they are in households. The change of the protagonist into a sort of pest can represent many things. Before reading "The Metamorphosis", we read about the author, Franz Kafka, who didn't seem to have a great life/live style. Possibly the author felt he could reflect his childhood into Gregor, as he could have felt bug, or a pest, not welcomed to where he was. Kafka wasn't some one who was very stable, possibly afraid of commitment, as he had engaged and dis-engaged to women a couple times. Gregor couldn't hold any relationships either, because of his job. Gregor was a salesman, who thought other salesmen had it better, I think that Kafka could have had problems as an author initially, believing other were better as Gregor did.

I personally wondered why it was a "beetle". Looking around I discovered(source below) that Kafka's intentions were not to be specific on what kind of bug he was, but just emphasis that he was "monstrous" and "gigantic". What was important was that Gregor became something that could disgust his mother just with a glance. How Gregor looks is all up to the imagination of the reader, a couple features are explained, like his neck(at a point when he turns around), and thin legs. A giant frog would instantly be killed, they wouldn't keep it in the home, I don't think anyone could like with a really big frog hidden away. Gregor is harmless, and weak, though he looks awful. This is all the point to him being a sort of "insect".