We continue to explore Kafka's existentialist world view. Aiden raised questions as to whether the story's theme was anti capitalist and somewhat anti-family . I noted that these elements of the novella are illustrative of broader ideas: alienation caused by modernity and humans as disposable assets in the modern world. We further studied a passage in the novella depicting
Gregor's family as financial parasites again highlighting the story's irony wherein Gregor, a bug, is more human than his family who are in fact parasitic like insects. We last addressed the role of setting as establishing the appropriate tone for the novella's themes.