Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis could not have a more appropriate title than it dons now. Virtually every round character in this extraordinarily poetic story takes on at least one, sometimes several transformations throughout the course of the writing. Every member of the family is changed in some aspect: physical appearance, temperament, lifestyle, and role in the group. Indeed, even the state of the group, or family is altered. These transformations are due to an inner …showed first 75 words of 1437 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1437 total…in alarm and banged the door shut; a stranger might well have thought that he had been lying in wait for her there meaning to bite her” (328). As for Grete, she begins to gain, from Gregor, some the deference that is usually reserved only for males. She decides what Gregor will eat. Gregor must hide under the sofa so as to hide himself from her. In this way she has grown to be more male.