Gregor is a lonely isolated guy who works a crappy job with no friends and complains about his life 24/7. In fact, he is so lonely and friendless that he framed a picture of a female model in his room to make him feel better. "It was a picture of a women with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting p in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm had disappeared." (Kafka 1). Normally people frame pictures of friends and family and put around the house, Gregor frames the model because he doesn't have friends or family that gives him comfort and joy to frame. The model gives him false hope and is always there for him in his room for him to complain to at the end of the day. After Gregor becomes a bug, his sister and mother tries to clean out his room so he has more room to crawl around. Gregor wants his room and his stuff to remain exactly where they are but he is unable to express and communicate. "He quickly scurried up over it and pressed himself against the glass which held it in place and which made his abdomen feel good. At least this picture, which Gregor at the moment completely concealed, surely no one would now take away." (Kafka 16). He desperately tries to save the framed photo of the women wearing nothing but fur, hiding it behind his giant bug body. He feels even more alone and isolated now that he is a large, human-size insect; although his mom and sister still tries to care for him, he knows they're terrified and disgusted with Gregor. In his loneliness and isolation , the photo of the women is the only thing that Gregor has left and he refuses to let the only source of the slightest joy to be taken away.
Although Gregor still lives with his family, and his mother and sister tries to help him in irrelevant ways; his father is angry and physically harms Gregor. From the beginning, Gregor's father has been a terrible fatherly figure. Gregor works a job he hates just to pay off his fathers debt as he sit at home living the life. "Then his father gave him a really strong liberating push from behind, and he scurried, bleeding severely, far into the interior of his room." (Kafka 9).When Gregor's father first sees him as a giant bug, his reaction was not to help him, but to shove and shoo him back in to his room, severely injuring Gregor in the process. Rather than trying to help his son, he sees him more as a freak show embarrassment. Later on in the story, he even tries to kill Gregor. "as her hands reached around his father's neck, and she begged him to spare Gregor's life." (Kafka 18). Gregor's father comes in to his room and starts to chase and pelt him with apples, nearly killing Gregor. Gregor lays half-consciously on the ground as he watches his mother beg his father to let him live. His father is cold, cruel, and brutal. He refuses to have a freak son that does not work and make money, he does not love Gregor at all. All he cares for is money and his hour long breakfasts. 
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