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." ... His parents had always treated him as their hired help since he had taken the job to pay for his father's debts. ... Kafka shows not only a metamorphosis in Gregor, but also in his mother, father, and sister as well. ... Samsa, the father in The Metamorphosis, corresponds to Franz's real father. ... Although he thought his father would consider him an equal, and viewed his father's marriage as ideal, he did not want to risk fathering a son lik...

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Gregor relates to this symbolism because this family has always treated him the same way a person would treat an unwanted pet. The only one that seemed to treat him like a human being was his sister Grete. ... His aspiration is to help his family move forward after the catastrophe of his father's failed business and from all the money his father owes. ... At this moment Gregor realizes that he is no longer a brother or a son, he is now referred to as "it.... "He executes it by virtue of what can only be considered psychic power. ...

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