or and a readiness to reject him. The experience of being segregated, then basically murdered is a life difference not of kind but of degree.
Gregor's experience of being locked away in a room that is used for storage, of being starved, of being hidden from the lodgers the family takes in, of being talked of as "this creature" that must be gotten rid of--these become Gregor's primary reality, a direct exprience of isolation that effectively results in his murder. Nor does Gregor quite figure out the murderous intent of the family. They who have shunted him aside declare him so selfish as to want the entire apartment to himself. They shriek in panic and disgust at him, while he fails to understand the panic and retreats from them convinced that "his good intentions seemed to have been recognized; the alarm had only been momentary" (Kafka 887). At his dying breath, Gregor thinks of his family "with tenderness and love" (Kafka 888). In a sense, his isolation and death are the logical culmination of being alienated from his own rationality. By the time the story ends, it is
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