Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as great as that, caused himself no damage.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (David Wyllie, trans.)
What can you infer about Gregor from this excerpt?
A. He is acting more like a bug and less like a human.
B. He is trying to call the hospital so that someone can help him.
C. He is thinking about the time he spent at the window when he was human.
D. He is plotting his escape because he hates being locked up.

Respuesta :

It's He is acting more like a bug and less like a  human.

The answer is A: He is acting more like a bug and less like a human.

In Kafka´s story the reader witnesses what the French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, termed a becoming animal. Gregor, the main character of the story, ceases to be a human being while at the same time, begins his transformation as a bug, and yet, he is not quite a bug nor a human being anymore, he is something novel, a bug that speaks and thinks like Gregor, and a human being getting accustomed and shaped by a new and unwanted experience: being turned into a bug. Kafka´s story shows the inconsistencies of human consciousness and the unexpected turns that shape it into what it is, and what it is, never is something fully determined nor constituted.