transition

1

Where Kafka's prose enacts the repression it describes: flat, affectless, registering Gregor's sacrifice in the same administrative tone the structure imposes on him, Carter's mode is correspondingly different.

2

Writing from outside the patriarchal financial structure, as a feminist novelist in 1967, she gothically theatricalises what Kafka leaves implicit, rendering the violence of the breadwinner role as spectacle rather than silence. The structure both authors are examining is the same. What changes is the literary method which makes the damage more visible