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This is a strange story filled with symbolism. There are so many different meanings and different ways of interpreting this story. It has been read by high school and college students and has always been a popular read by English teachers and English departments.

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning and finds he has turned into a large dung beetle. Is turning omtp a beetle Samsa's imagination. He has been working a job, a traveling salesman, to keep his family happy and able to take life easy. He didn't mind helping his family, he hates his job, the other workers, the owner. He has never been allowed to be himself, but be whatever others want him to be. Is this how he feels? Just something ugly, repulsive, hideous, disgusting, to be stepped on. Could being a dung bug is how Gregor's life has made him feel?

Gregor gets up, but it is hard for him to get around. The new body is so different, he must learn to manage his new self. He can't believe this is really him. He is about to surprise others. Or is this a joke? All is so unbelievable.

There is the locked door. Gregor has always locked his door in his travels. To keep people out, unlock to let people in. Gregor can't lock or unlock any door now. Hotels, hotels filled with strangers. Now his house is filled with strangers. They don't know him, he doesn't know them.

The Samsa family had servants. Now all have gone, frightened away by this horror.

Gregor can't eat, he is hungry, but he has no teeth, but he likes old, rotten, decayed food. Life has changed and not for the better? Or is it all a dream? He and they hope life will go back to what it once was. Mother and daughter try to arrange Gregor's room. How would a large bug like his room arranged. The two argue about Gregor's wants and likes. He has no voice. He crawls all over his room, on walls and ceilings.

Mr Samsa comes home from work, finds his wife and daughter upset and belts Gregor with apples. One hits him in the back and injures him badly. A charwoman has been hired to heavy clean. She is not afraid of Gregor, but has taken a broom to him. He doesn't frighten her. Tough old girl. Gregor's room is turned into a catch all, a junk shop. Unused articles are stuffed into the room. The room is filthy, crowded, but big bugs love filth and mess.

The number three comes up, three in the family, husband, wife, daughter. Gregor is no longer a member. He is a huge odious bug. Three serious, bearded men become lodgers in the apartment. The family has had to take lodgers. The three are fussy. The number three is associated with the Trinity. But Kafka is Jewish.

Greta plays the violin. Gregor slips in to listen. The three men see him and horrified. Later Mr Samsa orders them from his apartment. The clock strikes three.

After Gregor become a bug, the family has had to take jobs. Mr Samsa is a bank guard. When Gregor had a job, Mr Samsa enjoyed his retirement. Mrs Samsa has taken a job stitching fine sewing for a ladies underwear firm. Greta is working as a sales girl and learning shorthand and French to better herself. It is good that these three now have to learn to depend on themselves.

This is the strangest, most fantastic story ever. Do people feel like they are nothing, can be replaced, don't matter? Are tied to jobs and lives they don't want or like? Mr Kafka has told his story, one of his best and still widely read.