How does each family member react to Gregor after his ...

[dbose]

How does each family member react to Gregor after his transformation?What is different about each reaction? What is similar?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

When Gregors parents first see the gigantic insect (paragraph 25), do theyrecognize it as their son? What do their initial reactions suggest about their attitude toward their son?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[chreslie]

Answer to Question 1

• Each of the family members acts differently to him although they all feel ashamed of his condition. His sister initially shows the most concern for him. Her loving care sustains him, and when she abandons him (in Part III), he loses his grip on life. Gregors mother is full of sympathy for her son but, old and asthmatic, she is ineffective in helping or defending him. Gregors father lacks all compassion for his sons situation. He mercilessly drives Gregor back into his room the first two times he emerges. He resents having to work again, and subsequent events suggest that he had earlier been exploiting his son by forcing Gregor to pay off the family debts.

Answer to Question 2

Although Gregors parents are horrified to see his new shape, they never doubt that the huge insect is their son. They do not, for instance, fear that some supernatural monster has occupied their sons room. They instinctively recognize the vermin as Gregor. The mothers first reaction seems to be horror orsome critics claimdeep shame. His father is angry and then starts to weep. The family is already publicly embarrassed that Gregor appears to have barricaded himself in his room and has missed his business trip. The suspicious chief clerk from his office has arrived to check on him. Kafka never explains why the parents recognize their transformed son, but the implication seems to be that his new monstrous form manifests something latent in the old Gregor. What that characteristic is has become the crux of most critical debates

[dbose]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[chreslie]

Great! Please up vote