THE METAMORPHOSIS

The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. 

The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect-like creature. This story tells about Gregor Samsa wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect-like creature. He is a traveling salesman, and he hates traveling because he dislikes worrying and getting up early. Greta is Gregor's younger sister, who becomes his caretaker, have a close relationship with him but this quickly fades. While Greta initially volunteers to feed him and clean his room, she grows more and more impatient with the burden and begins to leave his room in disarray out of spite. Mr. Samsa is Gregor's father, he regards the transformed Gregor with disgust and fear. Mrs. Samsa is Grete and Gregor's mother. She is initially shocked at Gregor's transformation too. His family felt it was destroying their lives anyway. And they felt happy when they found he was died next morning.

 The name "Gregor Samsa" appears to derive partly from literary works Kafka had read. The hero of The Story of Young Renate Fuchs, by German-Jewish novelist Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934), is a certain Gregor Samsa. The Viennese author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose sexual imagination gave rise to the idea of masochism, is also an influence. Sacher-Masoch (note the letters Sa-Mas) wrote Venus in Furs (1870), a novel whose hero assumes the name Gregor at one point. A "Venus in furs" literally recurs in The Metamorphosis in the picture that Gregor Samsa has hung on his bedroom wall. The name Samsa is similar to Kafka in its play of vowels and consonants: "Five letters in each word. The S in the word Samsa has the same position as the K in the word Kafka. The A "is in the second and fifth positions in both words. Gregor Samsa appears to be based upon Kafka himself. As when Kafka suffered from Insomnia he feared he was repulsive and a burden to his family, during this time his sister was his caretaker.