⠀ ⠀ began: N/A ⠀ | ⠀ finished: 06.21.2025

NOTES

• interesting how, at first, the family acknowledged gregor a person still, using "he" to refer to him. however, as the story progressed, they began to refer to him as "it", seeing him more as a bug and a burden as a person or family. only after his death do they acknowledge him to be a "he," or a person, again.
• depressing and somewhat bittersweet as the family seems to gain a newfound hope after gregor's death, but extremely unfair as they only ever relied on gregor to provide for them, then cast him aside as if he were nothing the moment he stopped benefiting them.

QUOTES

• "gregor... felt, as he stared pointedly into the darkness, a great surge of pride that he had been able to provide his parents and his sister such a life and in such a beautiful apartment. but what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment, were now to come to a horrifying end?"