Click to read the passage from "The Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka. Then
answer the question.
In the passage, what do the description of everyday details of the room and
the description of the character help the reader understand?
O
A. That the character is dreaming
O
B. That the character thinks the room is small
C. That the character is truly frightened
D. That the character is an actual bug
SUBMIT

The description of everyday details of the room and  the character help the reader to understand that the character is an actual bug.

Option D

Explanation:

The Metamorphosis is mezzobula written by Franz Kafka tells the story of a sales man named Gregor Samsa who on a fine morning wakes to know that he inexplicably got transformed into an insect.

From the passage we can interpret that the main character Gregor describes the room in his point of view as he has transformed into a gigantic bug. In addition to that it describes his feeling of discord and lack of harmony.

The message of the story is more central to all of the readers and it expresses the struggles that we face to express our own identities in all over the world.

The description of everyday details of the room and  the description of the character help the reader understand (D) That the character is an actual bug

Explanation:

The first paragraph of "The Metamorphosis",describes the Gregor Sams(the main character) as a giant verminous bug.In the beginning of the passage Gregor wakes up and discover that he has been transformed in to a Giant Insect .After carefully analyzing his physical feature(i.e. numerous thin leg,hard back, a segmented belly) Gregor realizes that he has really been transformed in an actual bug

an old person

explanation:

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.