Gregor is the main character of the story. He works as a traveling salesman in order to provide money for his sister and parents. He wakes up one morning finding himself transformed into an insect. After the metamorphosis, Gregor becomes unable to work and is confined to his room for most of the remainder of the story.

Why did Gregor become a traveling salesman? Gregor became a traveling salesman after his father’s business failed. Gregor’s father owed money to the chief clerk, so Gregor started working for the chief clerk to pay off his father’s debt.

What happens when the boarders see Gregor? They refuse to pay rent.

Why is Gregor allowed certain new privileges at the outset of Chapter III? Gregor is allowed new privileges because even if he is a bug, he is still a member of the family who didn’t deserve to be treated like an enemy. He was also injured.

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka serves as an extended allegory for the isolation of humankind in the modern age. Gregor’s experiences represent the isolation and alienation from human connection that Kafka might have seen in his modern society.

The character Gregor Samsa’s in the book “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka symbolizes change, in which he gets transformed into a large insect. Change literally means to make or do something in a different manner to get a new result. However the central theme of the masterpiece “The Metamorphosis” is change.

The chief clerk is a serious man, all business. He doesn’t tolerate any nonsense and seems humorless, threatening, and two-dimensional. He tells Gregor that his work has fallen off and that he is in jeopardy of losing his position with the firm. Plus, people at work suspect him of stealing money.