“A grown single man who still lives with his family wakes up one morning to find that he has become a bug.  This leads to his being isolated from his shamefaced family.  His father drives him out of a room by throwing apples at him.  One lodges in his backside and rots there; the resulting infection kills him.  A family ashamed of their single son.  He’s a dung beetle.  The apple (sin) infects his posterior,” brothersjuddotcom.  This quotation of The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka summarizes Gregor Samsa’s undercover homosexuality.  Many aspects of Kafka’s real life are foreshadowed through his short story, The Metamorphosis.   It concludes to the one single possible factor, Gregor/Franz is gay.

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        Beginning with the title of the short story, The Metamorphosis it can be inferred that Gregor went through a change.  The dictionary term for metamorphosis means a marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.  Gregor really went through a character change of homosexuality, and used the beetle to symbolize his sexuality.  A beetle is a perfect use of symbolism towards his intimate feelings.  Being homosexual was not accepted in his era, therefore choosing an insect, especially one that is not liked, even possible despised by the majority of the population was a perfect fit.  “It may symbolize the empty, ...

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