First Impressions on Kafka

When I first started The Metamorphosis, I honestly enjoyed the absurdist tone. It is an interesting change of pace compared to many of the things I have read. It is so delightfully bizarre. There is no way anyone would wake up as a huge, nasty bug and just write it off as a casual disturbance. Gregor is such a darkly funny character. However, it has started to wear thin on me. I can’t really get much out of the book because it is so ridiculous. None of it sort of connects to how people really act. It is indeed funny and creepy, but it is just so unreal. I really think in books as bizarre as this one, the way one makes it believable is to have very real human interactions take place in bizarre situations. This is obviously not the case in this book. Gregor and his family have seemingly loveless, dry interactions, and the mean actions of Gregor’s boss are totally unbelievable. I feel like I might be being a little harsh on this book, but as of right no, I can’t really enjoy it. I can’t gain anything from reading it. It’s an interesting little story, but I cannot treat it as anything more in my mind. I really hope the remaining part of this story changes my mind.