The Metamorphosis

laconic tone, immense detail @ start

• he was lying on his back
• he saw his curved brown belly segmented into rigid arches

Initial denial

• What if i just go back to sleep?

Times at start

• It was half-past six
• Six forty-five
• The next train was at seven o'clock

instead of speech:

tortured peeping sound that was impossible to surpress

initial concern

his greatest concern was what to do about the loud crash

company representative proclaims

I speak in the name of your parents

Superficial, transacional SOCIETY - capitalism

your productivity as of late has been highly unsatisfactory

Time of day to depict change

• morning
• dusk

Gustatory changes

• It didn't taste good to him at all
• Revulsion

Semantic field of opulence

• beautiful
• tranquility
• prosperity

Gregor hiding

• Under the settee
• Attacks of suffocation

Aspiratinos of Grete improvement

• Conservatory
• Lovely dream

When furniture is removed

• Tumultuous hubbub

Father attacks him

• Petite red apples
• Utter bewilderment
• Lodged into his back

Gregor room becomes storage

• Fling any unservicable item into gregor's room

Free indirect speech to show time confusion

• Christmas had passed now, hadn't it? - 

Lodgers = dominant

They sat at the head of the table where in earlier times Gregor had sat

Crisis, biggest concern?

less urgen than of calming the lodgers

Grete changes after (anger)

• We have to try to get rid of it
• Creature

Gregor dying thought

his want to die was more emphatic than that of his sisters’s

Serendipidy following death

• Herr and Frau Samsa
• Come, Show
• Warm sunlight

Grete grow by end

• Blossomed into a beautiful, voluptuous girl
• Sprang to her feet and stretched her young body