It's no secret that Kafka had mad daddy issues. And in this quote, we see the unconscious meaning of the whole turning-into-a-bug nightmare: this is about Gregor's power vs. Gregor Samsa is the typical alienated Kafka protagonist living in an absurd world that first negates his feelings and finally negates his existence. Let's see if we have this right: a man wakes up in his own bed on an ordinary workday to discover… that he has turned into a disgusting bug. And yet, and yet-was this still his father? Was this the same man who in the old days used to lie wearily buried in bed when Gregor left on a business trip ? Now, however, he was holding himself very erect, dressed in a tight-fitting blue uniform with gold buttons under his bushy eyebrows his black eyes darted bright piercing glances his usually rumpled white hair was combed flat, with a scrupulously exact, gleaming part. He had not really imagined his father looking like this, as he stood in front of him now. Gregor turned his head away from the door and lifted it toward his father. But his father was in no mood to notice such subtleties, "Ah!" he cried as he entered, in a tone that sounded as if he were at once furious and glad.
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