Part III
He thought of his family with tenderness and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's.Read in Books4Free →
Gregor's Death
From Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Gregor dies quietly at dawn after Grete's rejection, his death framed as a willed self-sacrifice and described with eerie peacefulness.
Part III
The charwoman discovers the body: "Come and have a look, it's croaked; it's lying there, dead as a doornail!" The brutal idiom strips Gregor of dignity even in death.
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