The+Metamorphosis

1) There isn't much told about Gregor's life before his transformation. He was a traveling salesman and the sole provider for his family. He's to be praised in that regard but he does seem somewhat buglike in the sense that he doesn't reap the fruits of his labor. He hates his job and is only doing it on account of his father, mother, and little sister "The devil take it all! (Pg 90)." In a sense, one could say he's beneath all of them. In the real sense of the word 'bug', he doesn't seem that way. A bug is something that does nothing but consume, whereas Gregor was a provider.

2) I still don't understand what Gregor as a bug was symbolic for. At the least, it represents a helpless and hateful bum that can't function in human society. Still, this wouldn't fully explain why Gregor's family gave up on him because Gregor wasn't physically identifiable as a human at all. What kind of real-life situation would've made Gregor's boss run out of the lodge the way he did?

3) Only Gregor seemed to have feelings of self-reproach because of his burden to the family. Whereas before his transformation, his mother and father felt no shame at all in having Gregor bring home all the bread. It's as though Gregor was treated like a disposable robot worker that nobody cared for in the end. It's funny how the rest of the family only got jobs after Gregor's death. It shows how they were shameless to mooch off Gregor when he was the only leg they could stand on.