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Learning Through Gregor’s Reactions

Overview:Through Gregor’s reactions to different events, we learn more about him and about the ways in
which he is changing.
Directions: For each event below, write down what the reader learns from it under the column What Is
Learned.
EVENTS WHAT IS LEARNED

Gregor wakes up, metamorphosed into a large

beetle.

Gregor finally makes it out of bed and through

the bedroom door in an effort to apologize to
the manager, revealing that he is now a bug.
His father drives him back to his room,
wounding him in the process.

Gregor finds that he resents his mother and

sister’s trying to remove all the furniture from
his room.

Gregor reveals himself to his mother, who then

faints upon the exposure.

Gregor’s family abandons him to the waste of

his room. He stops eating and grows weaker
and weaker from his wounds.

Gregor’s family finally and fully denounce him.

The sister declares something should be done
about Gregor; that they should no longer have
to be responsible for the great burden he is
upon them.
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After Gregor’s death, the Samsa family begins
to plan the rest of their lives.