part 1 are the characters one?

Gregor is an insect. In his pre insect life he worked hard and a lousy job for his family who appears lazy and ungrateful fro his sacrifices. He has a better relationship with his sister though. His parents react badly to his insect state his mother cant seem to take it despite the fact that she does love Gregor his father herds him back into his room. The father is could be initially perceived as the stronger character because he chases him into his room while his mother panics but this isn’t necessarily the case, because he’s denying Gregor in his new state not accepting him. They want to fix Gregor and while they may genuinely care they don’t understand him they still hope that he can change but they have to accept that he is who he is now.

I’m not entirely sure how were supposed to view and analyze the characters and situation. Is each character supposed to be viewed as different aspects of an individual’s character or are they meant to be viewed separately as actual characters themselves. I think if we were to view the entire household as an individual Gregor would be fear and the desire to please others, the mother would be our emotional caring hopeful but weak side, the father our rational practical and order maintaining side, and the daughter our fiery passionate inner strength side.  When Gregor turns into an insect the desire to conform out of fear to please others becomes insignificant like an insect and creates disorder. The mother has a very emotional response to Gregor's transformation she feels turmoil as one would feel when they find they have no significance and she doesn’t really no what to do. The father is the rational side trying to deny this painful lack of significance in order to restore order that’s why he shoves Gregor back in his room. Grete is that inner brilliance and passion, she seems neither rational nor emotional but rather strength and resilience; she accepts Gregor's change as permanent and tries her best to understand his change rather than deny it or break emotionally from it. When Gregor who represents the need to please dies the family learns to support themselves and communicate. This is sort of like an individual finally being aware of one self and being responsible for all aspects of your character. I think a portrayal of characters as parts of a character portrays the exact emotion of existentialism. When Gregor dies a lot of positive comes out of it plus he was miserable so some happiness comes out of it but also when the character dies especially when he’s a pretty good guy its also sad. That’s sort of like existentialism it can hurt and you wont live in blissful ignorance but you can become free in its honesty.