What is Gregor?
Throughout the book, there’s never any specification on what type of bug Gregor turns into. In class, we briefly discussed the significance of this ambiguity, how Kafka purposefully didn’t specify and why. Personally, I think it’s because he wants the reader to place their own spin on Gregor. Different people dislike certain insects more than others and the vagueness of the book allows them to put their own fears into the book because, as we discussed, Kafka is really good at capturing feelings that the reader can relate to and distort it. I know many of us in class were thinking of Gregor as a cockroach or some type of beetle, which makes sense due to the large shell that is described in the book. However, throughout the book there are references to Gregor leaving a trail of slime and other…bodily fluids around the room. At first this disgusted me (it still does), but it also made me wonder about what kind of bug Gregor could possibly be. As far as I know, cockroac