Kafka and "his" Metamorphosis

Yes, sir, I finish Kafka's Metamorphosis and, as Kafka himself wrote in his diary, it is a weak end _The man-bug just die by himself, and all the tension and agony carefully built and blew out through the story in the reader's nerves prematurely busted off and swiftly vanished away.

The number of interpretations of this story is massive, and I presume all most critics do is to bring out their own, sui generis interpretation. If we disregard interpretations (Susan Sontag's suggestion), particularly the indisputable thesis of "alienation", we end up with the most value pose of the story: the emotions, the images, the flow of energy that strikes each individual reader, the after-reading transformation. And this is why the end is flaw and castrating, like a suddenly quenched orgasm.

If you look at the facts, Gregor is a creature in decomposition, fading away in many senses as the story travels. His death body will not even being remembered or taken into any transcendental rituals of any kind. On the contrary, it is left to the charwoman to be disposed of. However, the father and the sister characters undergo a progressive transformation along the story. If you ask yourself (as Ronald Reagan did ask to his fellow Americans): are these two characters better off after or before Gregor's Calvary?

The answer is: "better".

On second hand, the mother, considered apart, is stricken and shocked and in terrible pain, which is a feature of tremendous humanity, since the unfathomable and unassailable grief of a mother for his lost (or miscarried) son is universal. In this case, however, all improvement I can see is the family solid ties just born, as a mild relieve to save her from her own doom.

And thus Metamorphosis is the story of liberation and breaking-free of three people, instead of any sort of alienation. They become independent, working and occupied folks, more dignified and self-respected, non-dependent on any bossy chief clerk or general director, masters of their own house. And all this they got at the expense of Gregor's destruction and annihilation. Against his will, most likely, Gregor becomes savior of other three.

I may say some nonsensical thing, but this story of a man liberating others by means of his self-sacrifice (meekly accepted) and through a humiliating and terrible death is well familiar:

Is perhaps Kafka moving one step forward beyond his Jewish roots?

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