The Metamorphosis - Part 2 (11A) by Veronica Barton

Lope

2023-11-01 17:22:20 UTC

Towards the end of chapter 2, we learn that Gregor's father has now become the source of finance in the family with the following quote; "he was standing up really straight, dressed in a tight-fitting blue uniform with gold buttons, like the ones servants wear in a banking company."

Lope

2023-11-01 17:25:08 UTC

In chapter 2, we can clearly see how much more power Grete has over Gregor, using this quote as evidence; "Grete now felt tempted to want to make Gregor's situation even more terrifying, so that then she would be able to do even more for him than now."

"But what if all the quite, the comfort, the contentment, were now to end in horror?"

2023-11-01 17:29:19 UTC

Lynne

2023-11-01 17:31:34 UTC

When Gregor is no longer fond of the food that he used to love, Grete demonstrates that she is open to helping him change his physical abilities. This is shown when "she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out on an old newspaper."

Diya

2023-11-01 17:32:55 UTC

Demonstrates of Gregor becoming a bug to represent the tragedy of the life that Gregor was leading

Lynne

2023-11-01 17:33:27 UTC

Now that Gregor is no longer of help, Grete is forced to help her parents with new things. An example is "now Gregor’s sister also had to help his mother with the cooking."

Megan

2023-11-01 17:33:38 UTC

"Then he made an effort to turn the key in the lock with his mouth. Unfortunately it seemed that he had no real teeth. How then was he to grab hold of the key"

Lynne

2023-11-01 17:36:11 UTC

Since Gregor can no longer work, there have been a shift in power between him and his parents. This is demonstrated in the text when they say, "would Gregor’s elderly mother now have to go and earn money?"

Diya

2023-11-01 17:36:59 UTC

In chapter three, Gregor, who has been trying to accept his transformation, realizes his family no longer loves him and sees him for who he used to be. “He thought of his family with tenderness and love. The decision that he must disappear was one that he held to even more strongly than his sister if that were possible.“

Lope

lopes25_ — 2023-11-01 17:37:00 UTC

After Gregor's transformation, Gregor has a different way to perceive those things around him, and now has a lot more value for the furniture in his room, but due to his new body, he only has power to cover the painting in his room and protect it from his family. The quote is; "Then he saw hanging conspicuously on the wall, which was otherwise already empty, the picture of the woman dressed in nothing but fur. He quickly scurried up over it and pressed himself against the glass which held it in place and which made his hot abdomen feel good. At least this picture, which Gregor at the moment completely concealed, surely no one would now take away."

Dolapo

2023-11-01 17:37:21 UTC

"he had cut one finger a little with a knife and had still suffered pain from the wound only the day before yesterday. Am I less sensitive now?"

Lynne

2023-11-01 17:37:50 UTC

Grete has demonstrated how much power has shifted on her even if she was just a child. "She was still a child of seventeen"

Megan

2023-11-01 17:38:21 UTC

"You must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor. The fact that we have believed for so long, that is truly our real misfortune. But how can it be Gregor? If it were Gregor, he would have long ago realized that a communal life among human beings is not possible with such an animal and would have gone away voluntarily. Then we would not have a brother, but we could go on living and honour his memory"

Riaz

2023-11-01 17:38:46 UTC

"His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. His sister merely wept, and his mother collapsed into the father's arms."

Alvaro

2023-11-01 17:38:58 UTC

"His father merely stamped his foot all the harder, causing the morsel to shoot right into the room."

Teni

2023-11-01 17:39:04 UTC

Gregor's father shows a subtle shift by holding back and considering Gregor's feelings "His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands and wept so that his powerful chest shook."

Joana

2023-11-01 17:39:09 UTC

"Now Gregor's sister had to cook too, helping her mother." Grete has to cook now.

Riaz

2023-11-01 17:39:19 UTC

"Since they had been in this room, she had become familiar with crawling around on the walls and ceilings, even her mother seemed to approve, albeit doing so with her hands in her lap."

Alvaro

2023-11-01 17:39:35 UTC

"Grete had taken a position immediately behind her parents and, although she was only half their height, she appeared taller than them."

Gavin

2023-11-01 17:39:41 UTC

He was especially fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as great as that, caused himself no damage.

Riaz

2023-11-01 17:40:03 UTC

"The mother, who still had not mastered herself, started to screech and flailed her arms about. The father, on the other hand, clenched his fists, his eyes swollen with fury, as if he wanted to grind Gregor into the ground."

Alvaro

2023-11-01 17:40:05 UTC

"His father, therefore, would also always hold out a hand to him as he passed with a hostile expression, and he would meet it with a hostile expression."

Alvaro

2023-11-01 17:40:44 UTC

"Gregor's sister no longer thought about how she might be able to help; she had even taken a fairly large job in a dress shop."

Noor

2023-11-01 17:41:18 UTC

"His father was sleeping, as if completely exhausted, huddled in his armchair, while his mother was looking on anxiously from his father to Gregor."

Megan

2023-11-01 17:41:39 UTC

"His father clenched his fist with a hostile expression, as if he wished to push Gregor back into his room, then looked uncertainly around the living room, covered his eyes with his hands, and cried so that his mighty breast shook."

Alvaro

2023-11-01 17:41:41 UTC

"She had grown accustomed to seeing him, and was more a burden to him than a sister. He felt increasingly bitter about the lack of attention she paid him, after she had made such a fuss about it in the beginning."

Rhea

2023-11-01 17:42:23 UTC

"With a half unconscious turn and not without a slight shame he scurried under the couch, where, in spite of the fact that his back was a little cramped and he could no longer lift up his head, he felt very comfortable and was sorry only that his body was too wide to fit completely under it. There he remained the entire night, which he spent partly in a state of semi-sleep,"

This quote, found in chapter 2, signifies the changes in Gregor. How he's becoming more Bug than Man.

Diya

2023-11-01 17:42:39 UTC

From the beginning of the book, towards the end. Grete has transformed from a girl to a woman. "She was starting to take her own decisions. Very soon his sister noticed Gregor’s new way of entertaining himself—he had, after all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about—and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by removing the furniture that got in his way"

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:43:27 UTC

"she could understand everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was still just a child after all, and really might not have had an adult’s appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on."

Noor

2023-11-01 17:44:17 UTC

"The sister now had a significant role to play in the family, which made her quite lazy."

This quote highlights Grete's shift in responsibilities within the family. As she assumes a more active role, it signifies a change in her behavior towards Gregor. She starts to neglect him due to the increasing demands of her new role.

Yashnoor

2023-11-01 17:44:28 UTC

"His father, though, was still not used to the idea that Gregor could not come out of bed, despite his being there for over a month now."

Yashnoor

2023-11-01 17:45:06 UTC

"He had long since let go of the idea of walking out of the room at all and, the family at least, no longer forced him to come out, but the entire arrangement was unpleasant, perhaps even insulting."

Diya

2023-11-01 17:45:11 UTC

"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin"

Dhyani

2023-11-01 17:45:24 UTC

"Now his sister had to team up with his mother to do the cooking." After Gregor's transformation, Grete had to step up and take the role of the responsible elder child. The previously fragile and immature girl was now burdened with many things, including cooking, which resulted in her personal development.

Noor

2023-11-01 17:45:59 UTC

"Now that she was living at home, Grete would often leave Gregor's door open for the day."

This quote illustrates how Grete begins to assert her authority over Gregor by making decisions regarding his care. She controls his environment and becomes less considerate of his needs, symbolizing a shift in power dynamics.

Yashnoor

2023-11-01 17:46:07 UTC

"They were not at all curious about how he was or how he felt. But they were glad to have got the room back, which they needed for themselves."

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:46:07 UTC

"The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother’s warnings that she would strain herself."

Dolapo

2023-11-01 17:47:23 UTC

"Now Gregors sister had to cook too, helping her mother"

Megan

2023-11-01 17:48:12 UTC

"No matter how hard he threw himself onto his right side, he always rolled again onto his back. He must have tried it a hundred times, closing his eyes so that he would not have to see the wriggling legs, and gave up only when he began to feel a light, dull pain in his side which he had never felt before."

Lynne

2023-11-01 17:48:35 UTC

"It had even become very unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room." This quote shows how before Gregor transformed, he had felt very confident about himself, but after his transformation, a lot of power went to his sister, and ended up feeling self-conscious in comparison to her.

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:49:20 UTC

"Had he really wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it."

Dolapo

2023-11-01 17:50:14 UTC

"And was his sister to earn her bread, she who was still a child of 17, and who's life hitherto had been so pleasant?"

Megan

2023-11-01 17:50:55 UTC

"Without thinking any more about how they might be able to give Gregor special pleasure, the sister now kicked some food or other very quickly into his room in the 36 morning and at noon, before she ran off to her shop, and in the evening, quite indifferent to whether the food had perhaps only been tasted or, what happened most frequently, remained entirely undisturbed, she whisked it out with one sweep of her broom."

Lynne

2023-11-01 17:51:06 UTC

"She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the same room with him with the windows closed." This quote shows how much Grete's character developed as she has more confidence and power as she helps Gergor with daily things, when before the transformation it was the opposite.

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:52:44 UTC

"They were emptying his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at infant school—he really could not wait any longer to see whether the two women’s intentions were good."

Tia

2023-11-01 17:53:25 UTC

"Now, this was not something that she would be able to do by herself; She did not dare to ask for help from her father; the sixteen-year-old maid had carried on bravely since the cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this." This shows a shift in power as Grete is now taking charge of many aspects of the household, including decisions about caring for Gregor. Her authority in the household has increased.

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:54:41 UTC

"then he, too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she"

Dhyani

2023-11-01 17:54:48 UTC

"Sometimes in his general exhaustion he couldn’t listen any more and let his head bang listlessly against the door." This quote represents Gregor's physical weakness after his transformation. It shows how becoming a bug has affected him physically as well as mentally and emotionally.

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:55:41 UTC

"So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait;"

Suravi

2023-11-01 17:57:53 UTC

"He was standing up straight enough now; dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his scalp."

Suravi

2023-11-01 18:00:48 UTC

"then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple after another."

Pranav

2023-11-01 18:01:30 UTC

In "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, a prominent example of Gregor Samsa's transformation in Part 2 is his physical appearance as he describes himself: "He lay on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely." This quote highlights the dramatic and unsettling change in Gregor's body, which plays a central role in the novella's exploration of his alienation and the profound impact of his metamorphosis on his life and relationships.

Dhyani

2023-11-01 18:02:56 UTC

"His father clenched his fist, as if to drive Gregor back into his room, then looked uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands and wept." This quote shows how Gregor's father, despite being described as old and tired, now has a greater deal of power over Gregor because of his transformation.

Dolapo

2023-11-01 18:03:15 UTC

"At the moment, however, this money was not nearly sufficient to permit the family to live on the interest payments."

Sophie

2023-11-01 18:04:08 UTC

"And so at that point he'd started to work with a special intensity and from an assistant had become, almost overnight, a travelling salesman, who naturally had entirely different possibilities for earning money and whose successes at work were converted immediately into the form of cash commissions, which could be set out on the table at home in front of his astonished and delighted family."