The Metamorphosis

My reaction to reading "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka is similar to how I felt after reading his other stories. I have begun to notice that in a lot of Kafka's stories there are strange and abnormal circumstances present. For example in the "County Doctor", horses are able to fit in a pigpen along with a mysterious stranger, when clearly in real life, that would be impossible. In "The Metamorphosis," the main character Gregor wakes up one morning and discovers that he had been turned into a bug, which is also impossible in real life.

I also think that these stories in some way relate to the author and maybe he is telling a personal imaginative story that somehow relates to something in his life. I was very shocked when Gregor died at the end, because his family had abandoned him. They had accepted the fact that he would never turn back into a human, so they made him starve to death. This made the story much more depressing than the other two stories written by Kafka. I also understood this story a lot more than the previous two since I read this story in my English 102 class in the spring semester. I feel that Franz Kafka is a very interesting and strange author. I enjoy reading his stories to see what bizarre characters and plots will presented.