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read metamorphosis. i doubt that anything i have to say about it matters much at all. very bleak. the samsa family are absolutely vile characters, but you are made to feel sympathy for them, or to feel like a rather cold person yourself for not siding with them. you come to feel like a roach yourself by the end of it.
the roach:
a feeling of abandonment and grief, muddied with a sick sense of obedience and whimpering nostalgia. gregor himself is not a vile creature, but has been imprisonned inside a monstrous carapace and has no way to reconnect to the outside world. alienation
of a defunct man who one day inexplicably finds himself unable to c*pe.
not because of any one particularly catastrophic event, but just a slow accumulation of menial shit. churned and shat out by the gears of a dreadfully monotonous system. the fate of servile men who end up wasted and used (through no fault of their own), raised on notions of duty and self-sacrifice. yet the hedonist
self-serving alternative is no more virtuous, no more mature.
Your recent performance has been highly unsatisfactory; it is admittedly not a heavy business season, but a season of no business at all, I assure you, Mr. Samsa, does not exist,
cannot
exist.
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