ok the story behind this was i finished my other book before school and asked my drama teacher if i could borrow something from his shelves and i picked this bc it was short and easily readable. i read most of it today and i finished it during my last class of the day and immediately walked in his classroom holding it out to him and went "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS???" and he LAUGHED at me bc SERIOUSLY WTF DID I READ TODAY??? we had a conversation about it and i could not for the life of me figure out what kafka was trying to say while reading it. my teacher said it's really about change, specifically how parents react when their child becomes their own person/something they don't expect and WOW did everything make so much more sense after that. even now im still connecting dots and thinking about the different family dynamics bc wow. originally i was going to give this 2 stars but after talking through it i bumped it up to 3