Metamorphosis Reaction

The metamorphosis written by Kafka is the story of a young man that was turned into a bug over night. I'm not sure what type of bug he became but the charwoman called him a dung beetle (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2007/10/03/dung.jpg) which is what I generally pictured him as. I have to admit the idea of the story is crazy but that's how Kafka likes it. I enjoyed the story more towards the end because I really wanted to know what happens to Gregor. During the first 2 readings I actually found myself dozing off a bit. This is probably the first time I have done that during a homework assignment. The reason this happened was because there was allot of information that was unimportant to the story or was uninteresting. I was really surprised because overall this short story was very interesting. In tonight's reading I was very upset to see how it ended with Gregor dieing. I feel that the ending was a surprise because any other writer would probably have made Gregor turn back into a human and make him leave his family for good. But this is Kafka's work and because he writes in a nightmarish way it does make sense. This is also why the story was so interesting because it was like one big bad dream. Talking about Gregor's family I should mention how surprised I was to their reaction of Gregor's death. They basically felt that God had taken away a heavy burden that was actually their son. The person who upset me the most might have been Gregor's sister. Gregor had so much respect and love for her, he even thought she felt the same way. He believed that after his transformation his sister still felt that there was some human left in him. In reality she felt he was a "thing" like any other creature that creep people out. She was even the one that proposed the idea of getting rid of him. That's partially why it probably ended like it did. If he did become human he would end up being the small insect he used to be in the real world. Realising how his family felt about him made him very depressed which could show how he does have some emotion. Gregor's death to me is unclear even though he was hurt why would he die in what I guess we could say was in his sleep. I was under the impression maybe his sister had killed him because they said she was pale and had not slept. Then i remembered that as readers we witness his last breathe. Another good thing about this story is that even though we know that Gregor died we don't actually know what happens to his body. The charwoman said that she had taken care of it but she never explains. I thought that the butcher's boy could have done the job but that would be kind of last on the list of things that could have happened. Overall I did enjoy the story, I felt that it was good because towards the end it made me want to find out what happens next. It also raised a few questions that will probably not get answered. So its up to us to think about what could have happened. I recommend this story in the novel to anyone who has the free time to read it on their own.