Franz Kafka said, "My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast." ... Kafka knew that the family had to want its independence from Gregor but still guiltless in attaining it; the only way to make this work was to make Gregor repulsive to them. ...

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