Question

from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Answer 1

(1)One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

(2)"What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table -Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.

(3)Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.

How does the author create a sense of sadness about the situation?

He sets the opening of the story on a rainy day.
He gives Gregor an ordinary room.
He makes Gregor a textile salesman.
He has Gregor waking from a bad dream.

Answer 2

I think it's A

Answer 3

Correct. ^_^

Answer 4

I don't think it's A anymore, because the story doesn't open with it being a rainy day. It says that later...

Answer 5

)Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad

Answer 6

But thats in the last paragraph, not in the beginning...

Answer 7

I think it's D, because it says that Gregor woke from a bad dream (One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams...) and that puts it in a sad mood a little bit...i think

Answer 8

OH. You're right. I need to pay closer attention. I just saw the word "sets" in A.

Answer 9

lol it happens. I got one more question. LAST ONE haha

Answer 10

Alright. ^_^