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sarahmajer 's review for:
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
This book had good writing and was a creative story but I feel like it was just too short. It was only 80 pages and I feel like it just wasn't enough for context of the situation. Why did Gregor wake up as a bug? How did that even happen? Would there have been a way for him to become human again? And in all the months that he lived as a bug he really couldn't have come up with some sort of communication system with his family? Two leg taps for yes and one for no? They believed he wasn't even conscious inside the bug body the entire time and I feel like that would have been easy to disprove. I understand the underlying metaphors and themes of societal alienation and stuff but I was just left with too many questions about the story by the end.
This is also the third book in a row that I've read where the main character dies at the end.
This is also the third book in a row that I've read where the main character dies at the end.