From Despondence to Death In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa transforms from a businessman into a human-sized, beetle-like creature unexpectedly overnight. His family finds him to be grotesque, and they immediately shut him out of their lives. Gregor's physical metamorphosis embarrasses his family, creates a barrier that forces him into a prison-like isolation, and brings about his despondence and death. As a beetle, Gregor feels the need to hide from his family in …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…into a horrid creature. Gregor's couch resembles a prison cell which deprives him of senses, the family wants him to die quickly to relieve themselves of embarrassment and disgust, and Gregor begins to lose all connection with his previous life. Gregor's world is behind closed psychological bars, and the key to the lock has been lost forever. He experiences the life of an innocent man unable to be rescued from the depths of death row.