The Sad, Sad Man

Gregor Samsa led an unfulfilling life trying to make ends meat for his family. He describes his job as a burden when he calls it suspicious and aggressive towards the sales employees. He would have quit but his family depends on him. Gregor’s turning into an insect is what he desired for. He wanted to just become a fly on the wall and lose all his responsibilities. His metamorphosis does result exactly as he wanted, although it did relieve him of his burden.
After turning into an insect, he no longer had to stress over his family’s financial crisis or go slave over his job; however, he is completely treated as a vermin. His family can no longer look at him the same at all. He had to cover himself up so that Grete could put his food in his room without freaking out. His dad threw apples at him and his family took apart his room as if he never existed. When he jumps on his beloved painting, it shows that Gregor yearned to be normal again. Unfortunately that was not going to happen soon.
When Gregor starves himself, it is evident that he realized that his desire to escape did not reach his expectation. The burden of truly being hated and exiled from his family must have been a bigger weight on his shoulders than his previous job and financial crisis. Although, maybe it is really what he wanted all along is to just escape life completely, but it shows that Gregor was not living his life happily. It is not hard to understand his logic seeing his position in the world, but I believe his desire to escape is wrong. People are born with the cards they are dealt and they should fight through it, with exceptions to health problems. I personally see Gregor as a weak, insecure individual who required his parent’s attention and acceptance to feel good about himself. His fate was deserved because he no longer has to worry about stress, or living in general as he wanted.
The moral of the story is that people do enjoy the feeling that people appreciate them, but it requires work for that to happen. The catch is that sometime one may face people that are not considerate at all. What Gregor did not realize is that he was not at fault for his parents harshness. He fell into believing that what he was doing was incorrect, when his financial support and care for his sister was exactly the right thing to do. It is sad to see the fate that befell him because he really is a caring person inside or else he never would have allotted a significant amount of time working for his family.