Kafka's Metamorphosis is kind of funny, everyone in his family HATES him lol, weird allegory but ok go off

(insert /r/AmITheAsshole narrative along these lines):

With Gregor's unexpected transformation, his family is deprived of financial stability. They keep Gregor locked in his room, and he begins to accept his new identity and adapt to his new body. His sister Grete is the only one willing to bring him food, which they find Gregor only likes if it is rotten. He spends much of his time crawling around on the floor, walls, and ceiling and, upon discovering Gregor's new pastime, Grete decides to remove his furniture to give him more space. She and her mother begin to empty the room of everything, except the sofa under which Gregor hides whenever anyone comes in, but he finds their actions deeply distressing in fear that he might forget his past, while he still was a human, and desperately tries to save a particularly loved portrait on the wall of a woman clad in fur. His mother loses consciousness at the sight of him clinging to the image to protect it. When Grete rushes out of the room to get some aromatic spirits, Gregor follows her and is slightly hurt when she drops a medicine bottle and it breaks. Their father returns home and angrily hurls apples at Gregor, one of which becomes lodged in a sensitive spot in his back and severely wounds him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

  • buh [any]
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    6 months ago

    NTA. It's not your fault this happened, under capitalism the worker sinks to the level of a commodity and becomes indeed the most wretched of commodities (bugs).

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I read it as a black comedy because the degree to which Gregor's family despises him is absurd. It's honestly bizarre how much depression makes you hate yourself. Observed from a distance it almost feels comical. Metamorphosis captured it well.