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As people, we are needy creatures. We are needy to things like our environment, our social position, finanical problems, and new challenges we have to face. When our surroundings change, we must change too. We are compelled to develop and to adjust to our new surroundings. We must figure out how to live with our new conditions. These challenges are faced within Franz Kafka short story “Metamorphosis”. Metamorphosis is a significant change in the presence or character of somebody or something. Gregor Samsa is the protagonist who undergoes this metamorphosis by transforming into an insect. Gregors change also impacts his family as they change towards him being an insect. In Nina Pelikan Straus critic essay “Transforming Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis” shows a feminist reading of “Metamorphosis” that shows the importance of Gregor's sister, Grete Samsa, in this essay. She has stand with Grete is the character who undergoes a transformation of becoming a better person in exchange of Gregor who losses everything in his life. She agrees that “For Kafka there can be no change without an exchange, no blooming of Grete without Gregor’s withering; nor can the meaning of transformation entail final closure that prevents furthur transformations” (658) The points that validates Straus point is that feminism plays a major role in how Grete transformation overrides Gregors transformation. Straus point that Grete transformation is what assumes the significant part in Kafkas "Transformation", is not the real part. It is Gregor who is the one going through a major transformation. Kafkas point is to show that Gregor changed into one of the most minimal and scorned creatures, with the the goal to show how it impacts his surroundings.
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...family. This metamorphoses that took place was within Gregor and it was Grete who took over the role of Gregor towards the ending of the story but no the entire story such that Straus agress on that.
In conclusion, transformation is what happened to Gregor as in resulted to Gretes new life. Straus has made a standpoint to look at Kafkas “Metamorphosis” in a feminism way due to the time this shory story was published. Women and men were categorized with a spefiic position they had. This relates to how Grete transformed into someone who Gregor wished to be by the death of Gregor abd blooming of Grete. It is Gregor who transformed into someone he failed at becoming due to being an insect and had the effect where Grete was able to blossom. If it wasnt for Gregor, Grete wouldnt been able to transform towards the ending where this metamorphosis happened with Gregor Samsa.

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