The main reason Gregor Samsa is better off as a beetle than a human being is because, despite the alienating and repulsive nature of his condition, it serves to provide him with clarity and insight that strengthens his familial bonds. Gregor awakes one morning to find he is transformed into "a monstrous insect" (Kafka, p. 64). Gregor's condition is isolating, alienating and repulsive. He is truly helpless in his condition, which is repulsive to his parents. He is cut off from others in a back room of the apartment he provides for his family, unable to communicate. As we are told, "the words he uttered were evidently no longer intelligible, despite the fact that they had seemed clear enough to him" (Kafka, 2008, p. 73). At this point Gregor is reconciled to a greater degree with human company, feeling he is cared for despite his condition, "He felt restored once more to human company and hoped for impressive and startling achievements from both the doctor and the locksmith" (Kafka, 2008, p. 73). Gregor is disabled in a particularly repulsive manner, but it brings him closer to his own humanity and that of others than he has ever been before.
We see that his mother tries to offer Gregor empathy and love even when he seems to push away human contact or reminders of it. His mother whispers to her daughter, "Wouldn't it look as if by moving the furniture we meant to show him we had given up all hope of his getting better, and were leaving him callously to his own devices" (Kafka, 2008, p. 89)? His sister insists on clearing the room anyway, but not before Gregor realizes it is foolish to push away the warmth of human contact or reminders of his human existence. In this manner, being a Beetle helps Gregor to develop as a human being with greater insight and understanding.
We see that at one point Gregor's father whips a number of apples at him, with one lodging in his back, causing him pain and creat...