We completed the introduction to literary existentialism by reviewing the characteristics of Kafka's existentialism ,and reading portions of other existential works such as Becket's "Waiting for Godot" and Camus' The Stranger. I noted the difference between the more modern iteration of the genre and Kafka in that Becket, and Sartre both argue that Man must exercise free will and take action to establish a new morality given an absurd meaningless world. We then studied the beginning of the story highlighting lack of communication and its resultant alienation as emblematic of Kafka's existential outlook. During the last segment ,we reviewed Marcel's rewrite of his final essay on Great Expectations and discussed how to remove superfluous words and to combine sentences where appropriate. For homework due Weds. read through Part II of story and answer questions on Kafka's view on the dehumanizing quality of work.