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Society often works against itself in one way or another. In reading Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka one could presume the work to be a social criticism. Throughout this story Kafka shows how society can be split into different sections, with Gregor representing t ....

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.... himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (P862, Ph1) that Kafka meant something underneath the surface. Awakening from uneasy dreams could mean awakening from an uneasy, labored life by quitting it all. His transformation could mean how society can compare him to a cockroach for his giving up on them and treat him as if he was less than human. Gregor has obviously had a life of hard labor at a job that he finds to be unbearable; as he states "Oh, God what an exhausting job I've picked" (P862 Ph4). He feels that he must work though. He feels that his family is incapable of supporting themselves. His mother has asthma, his father is old, an ....