This story starts off with a man, who is the bread winner of his family, waking up to find that he is now a human sized insect. This story touches on societal expectations and how people respond when you no longer are “useful” to them. The family is left having to look after Gregor and in the process starts to resent and even hate him and his presence in their lives as they saw it was a burden on them. The dehumanization of Gregor at the hands of his family led to the inevitable death of himself. Even in the last few sentences of the story, the father and mother looked to their daughter and thought it was time to make use of her and marry her off to someone preferably rich. Yet another example of how transactional they viewed their relationships with their children. Before when Gregor was providing for the family, he was a respected man and everyone in the household benefitted from his hard work without having to work themselves. Once Gregors role in their life changed, so did their respect for him. Gregors metamorphosis into an insect can also be a metaphor for disabilities and sicknesses and speaks on how society fails people who are most vulnerable in an ableist society built on economic productivity and individualism. It also emphasizes that even people who are thought to be good can be swayed to be cruel to people they love if fear and resentment drives them in that direction. Overall I really enjoyed this and even went on a deep dive on YouTube to understand it better.