Just how Gregor becomes a captive in his room after his metamorphosis, the rest of the Samsa family has also become captives and imprisoned in their flat. While Gregor is able to provide everything for them, they are fairly satisfied, rarely going out. They need not have to worry about anything. When Gregor goes through his transformation, we can be sure the apartment certainly contributes to his sad change of events in Gregor's life.
Once Gregor changes to an insect, there is no way to escape the apartment. Going out every day had taken its toll and his only escape now will come with his death. Gregor's father sees himself now as the dominating figure within the apartment. He even drives out the lodgers. The apartment they live in contributes to joining the other members of the family into a separate unit that Gregor cannot belong …show more content…
He uses metaphor throughout his whole corpus of The metamorphosis, and pushes it to its highest confines, sometimes exceeds it to bizarre; he uses metaphors to show and explain the relationships which exist between human