Futility, alienation, and the absurd are all over this book.
Absurd - hello, he's a bug and Kafka never even explains how or why he turns into a bug.
Alienation - Gregor is definitely alienated from his family, so much that he is not even human anymore.
Futility - maybe being a bug is metaphor for being powerless and feeling insignificant. He hated his job and his manager.
Weird that when his sister finds him dead she says "it's kicked the bucket. It's lying there, totally snuffed!" She has cut off all emotional ties and doesn't even think of him as a him anymore but as an it. She's pretty mean about it. It's pretty bizarre that there is no mourning of losing Gregor.
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