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The father pelts Gregor with apples from the fruit bowl; one sinks into his back. "No one dared remove it."
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From Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The father's apple, lodged in Gregor's flesh and left to rot, is the novella's most famous symbol — biblical fall, paternal violence, and slow death fused.
Part III
The festering apple weakens Gregor and marks the family's complicity in his decline.
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