Short In-Class Writing on Kafka Passage

In this passage, it is evident that there are different attitudes expressed toward each family member. In analyzing Gregor's father, the use of sluggish effectively dehumanizes the father and directly relates the father to Gregor's new form as a vermon. Moreover, while the narrator does acknowledge that Gregor's father did work hard, he was largely unsuccessful and over the past five years has become increasingly fat, lazy, and unmotivated. The narrator offers more sympathy towards the mother as she really should not be expected to work, especially with her current suffering from asthma. Thus, the narrator expresses some pity towards the mother while directly illustrating the faults of the father. Lastly, the daughter has a specifically unique situation. Even though she is not a really young child at seventeen years of age, the narrator describes the daughter working as "a pity to deprive of the life she had led until now." As the narrator describes, for the sister it would be a drastic transformation from being generally free as a child to now having to take a vastly important role in the family.