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The Metamorphosis of the Samsa Family
Don Pelham
English 101 section 2
May 12, 2003
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis of the Samsa Family
In the story “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa is transformed into a bug. The family lived off the labors of Gregor for 5 years because his father, Mr. Samsa, had failed in a business venture and Gregor had stepped up to pay off the business losses and sustain the family financially. When Gregor was no longer able to support the family, Mr. Samsa gathered the monies he had secreted away from the business collapse and what he had kept from Gregor’s income and found the “…capital was by no means sufficient to let the family live on the interest of it; for one year, perhaps, or at the most two, they c...
Don Pelham
English 101 section 2
May 12, 2003
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis of the Samsa Family
In the story “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa is transformed into a bug. The family lived off the labors of Gregor for 5 years because his father, Mr. Samsa, had failed in a business venture and Gregor had stepped up to pay off the business losses and sustain the family financially. When Gregor was no longer able to support the family, Mr. Samsa gathered the monies he had secreted away from the business collapse and what he had kept from Gregor’s income and found the “…capital was by no means sufficient to let the family live on the interest of it; for one year, perhaps, or at the most two, they c...
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