In fact reconciling his human thoughts and feelings with his new insect body is the chief conflict gregor faces in the story.
Why does gregor leave his room to follow the manager.
When gregor does manage to squeeze through his room door the office manager backs still further away.
What prompts gregor to leave his room and make the tenants threaten to move out.
How does the office manager react when he sees gregor.
Why does gregor feel blind rage towards his family.
What does gregor try to prevent being taken from his room.
When gregor awakes he begins to scuttle around his room in order to avoid thinking about the ramifications of his new body.
After his first foray outside his room gregor falls into a deep sleep.
Gregor tries to catch up to the manager but before he can do so he is chased back into his room by his father.
They have to clean the house for the lodgers.
He has trouble maneuvering his body.
As a bug gregor is merely a pest.
Instead the story much like gregor moves on quickly from the metamorphosis itself and focuses on the consequences of gregor s change.
Why does gregor leave his room.
Gregor has merely been a breadwinner for the family.
He grabs a walking stick and a rolled up newspaper and tries to beat gregor back to his room.
This chapter places a great emphasis on time.
For gregor that primarily means becoming accustomed to his new body.
Father hisses and shoos gregor back much like someone might do to a bug or animal.
Gregor wants to leave it and to tell his chief exactly what he thinks of him but he realizes that he cannot do so while his family depends on him.
The father wishes they could explain to gregor why they need him to leave but grete says that if he could understand them he would have left long ago to spare them any more pain.
First his mother then his father and sister knock on his bedroom door in an effort to get him out of bed.
What does this episode reveal about gregor s father.
Gregor leaves his room for the first time because he is concerned about his mother.
Certainly gregor s father holds no sympathy nor empathy towards his son.
What happens to gregor when he leaves his room to meet the office manager.
Train as usual but then realizes that he has slept until 6 30.
What does the office manager accuse gregor of.
Gregor feeling terrible scuttles back to his room.
Why does it take gregor so long to answer the door when the office manager arrives.
Gregor first wants to catch the 5 a m.
As he struggles to come to terms with his new body he realizes that he s gasp late for his job as a traveling salesman.