In Metamorphosis , Gregor transforms from a man to an insect, testing the coldness of human nature

1. In order to support his family, he is desperately doing work he doesn't like.

Gregor did not like to be a traveling salesman, he was busy with work, he was tired and annoyed from traveling, he could not eat on time, his food was quite poor, and he had plenty of sleep.

But he had to do it, because his parents owed the boss a lot of money, and he had to buy a big house for his family, and hire a cook and nanny for his mother, so that his parents could enjoy a comfortable life.

2. Lost the ability to support the family and thought that he had no value.

Gregor was transformed into a beetle.

I just thought I had a cold, sleeping position.

It was not good to press the numb hands and feet, or as usual, the pain was just an illusion, he did not worry about his body, he became a worm, and his father did not help him, but thought that it was a shame to scare him away when he was sick and scared away, and kicked him with his foot in anger.

3. Loneliness and despair after becoming a worm.

It has only been a little more than a month since he became a worm, and his sister sees that he can no longer become a human, so she has to empty the things in his room and empty all his memories as a human being. My mother was against it at first, but eventually helped my sister move her furniture. Instead of reflecting on his mistakes, his family disliked him and snubbed him, leaving Gregor alone and hopeless.

4. Alienation of one's own social values in the heart.

A misunderstanding of the value of life will bring great disasters to mankind. When Gregor became a worm and lost the value of working for his boss and the ability to earn money for his family to support his family, he also had the right to live and the value of existence. But society and his family took his life away with indifferent discrimination, a practice and the Nazis.

's cruelty makes no difference.

Because he doesn't want to be mediocre, he wants to change the status quo. Describes a real and absurd world. "Real" is because the author uses objective and calm realistic techniques to describe the specific details of the protagonist's life before the transformation and the realistic psychological state after the transformation, which makes people feel that he is always in the realm of a real person;

"Absurd" because the overall framework of the story is constructed in a symbolic way, and this story framework, the logical structure of man's transformation into an insect, is itself unreal, it is only used to convey the state of existence of man in a philosophical sense, rather than a real imitation of external life.

Kafka used his own unique artistic tone to artistically reconstruct the "man turned into a beetle incident" with symbolism and detailed description, so that the work presented an absurd and incredible tone.

Samsha's encounter in The Metamorphosis is a symbol of the fate of the little people at the bottom in that era of great material abundance and human affection. **The absurd story of the protagonist becoming a beetle reflects the reality that the world is mercenary, worships money, disdains true love and humanity, and is finally squeezed and deformed by society, reflecting the real social life under the capitalist system.

At the end of the First World War, pessimism prevailed in Europe, with no hope for the people's lives and indifference between people. The Kafka beetle is an outlier that can understand the language but is not accepted, reflecting the social situation of the time.