What does Franz Kafka say about Man's relation to his work in Metamorphosis?

What does Franz Kafka say about Man’s relation to his work in Metamorphosis?
Henry Bott

In Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka uses the subject, Gregor Samsa, as a metaphor for many disturbing themes which paralleled his own life. Kafka grew up in a domestic atmosphere of familial tensions and social rejection and living as a young Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, naturally he experienced discrimination and alienation. His father was abusive towards him and his three sisters all perished in concentration camps. For these reasons, we can understand the superficially weird goings on in Metamorphosis by relating them to Kafka’s own life and it is the theme of Man’s relation to his work which I intend to focus on in particular. Three specific episodes suitably highlight this relationship and what Kafka is trying to say about it and these are; the first time Gregor thinks of his work havi...