The Window & The Milk

While the characterization of Gregor, Grete, Mom, and Dad are significant parts of The Metamorphosis analysis, I always find the symbols to be quite telling in how the characters are functioning. That window - and what is outside of it, out of reach to Gregor's defenseless being, far from palliating his obvious emotional discomfort - and the milk - connecting to mother, an entity Gregor's chooses to remove himself from as his buggy world crumbles around him - are the two symbols that kidnap my attention from other analytical avenues. In both hours, at this point, we have begun our look at the first two parts of the novella . This occurred after vocab quiz 5 and any remaining notes on Kafka, the man, the biography, the psychoanalysis of the relationship to his father and random eating habits. Part 3 for tomorrow to see what the final part of this metamorphosis will be. Oh, and since I'll ask it at some point, whose Metamorphosis does the book's title really cover?