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Hurry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by franz kay's pest control exterminating existentialism one metaphor at

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a time And we're just doing our part here from

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up to help chuck in a massive multimillion gregor samsa

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well famous opening You gotta know this once happened me

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gregor and turned around Oh god he thought in a

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strenuous career that's kind of the same From up Each

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morning i get here turn into a big batch All

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right what is the effect of juxtaposing the fantasy element

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of the story With information about greg oars mundane daily

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duties You kind of do all right The answer's our

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technique All right well now reading the text will notice

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that franz kafka demonstrates a wee tiny bit of understatement

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Ordinarily if we woke up to find ourselves transformed into

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a giant bug our reaction would be a little bit

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more severe unless we're spider man it's cool we probably

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wouldn't be occupied worrying about our ordinary work schedule right

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But greg or sam says mind is busy with the

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trivialities of being a door to door salesman problems like

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traveling day in and day out making train connections bad

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an irregular food or contact with different people Now it's

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not like he isn't bummed about turning into a giant

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roach or that road shit ties ing is an ordinary

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part of a salesman's career and he's certainly not starting

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a career is an exterminator although that would be yet

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another ironic twist for our poor sap Instead if we

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really consider gregor's list of complaints will notice that these

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air all things a cockroach also has to deal with

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Well the answer is d the juxtaposition suggests a similarity

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between the effects of his transformation and his duties because

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when your life's already spent trawling through the gutters being 00:01:58.516 --> [endTime] a giant bug Just isn't that big a change

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