![]() ![]() He takes an enormous responsibility to provide for his entire family and pay off his father’s debts. As a human, he spends his days traveling for work, sleeping in strange hotel rooms. In The Metamorphosis, the theme of isolation is gradually disclosed through Gregor’s thoughts and feelings. His work dehumanized him long before the transformation happened. He wakes up as an insect and is obsessed with getting to work. It is especially apparent in the first lines of the novella. ![]() ![]() Even before this horrendous transformation, Gregor Samsa lives a very alienated life. However, the reader learns that his life as a human was not much different. In the third part of the novella, Gregor loses his name and humanity. As a result of this transformation, he becomes alienated from his work, society, and family. He finds himself turned into an insect overnight and experiences a physical alienation from his own body. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who works hard to support his family, wakes up late to work one morning. Alienation is the most dominant theme in The Metamorphosis. ![]()
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