As Samsa struggles to reconcile his humanity with his transformation, Kafka, very deftly, weaves his readers into a web that deals with the absurdity of existence, the alienating experience of modern life and the cruelty and incomprehensibility if authoritarian power, leaving them at once stunned and impressed.

The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one if the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction with varied interpretation.