In Franz Kafka’s Judgment, Georg and the friend were business man. But they are opposite to each other. In the passage, the friend was in the foreign country Russia and running a business that didn’t profit for a while. Georg was the one who stayed at home and his business had unexpectedly increase over the two years.  Also, the friend who was a bachelor that didn’t have social relationships with local Russia families. In the other hand, Georg who was engaged with a girl from well-to-do family and had social life. The friend was described as ” he was a big child who simply had to listen to the successful friends.” The friend might represent people who is not able to use of his/her own reasoning without guidance of others (Kant’s idea). In the passage, the friend was described as immature and incapable of doing business. In the other hand, Georg was able to use his rational thinking ability to improve the business.  The description that Georg used to describe the friend shows that Georg felt proud of himself. He was better than the friend in everything. He is the one who can independently solve anything.

Frieda respond to the existence of the friend by “if you have such friends, you should never gotten engaged in the first place.” Frieda directly pointed out that Georg did not want to tell and invite the friend to their wedding. Frieda was criticizing Georg’s reaction toward the friend, Georg was trying to prevent the friend to come to their wedding. He was the one who hesitated to reveal the wedding to the friend but he blamed for both himself and Frieda (“we are both at fault”).  His hesitation and complain made Frieda felt disappointed and angry, that is why Frieda said “I really do feel offended”. After Frieda’s response, Georg suddenly decided to tell the wedding with the friend. This shows that Georg was not mature at all, he was the one that can be affected by others. Other people can make/affect his decisions. Georg’s response, “that is how I am, and that is how he must take me”. He was still believed that he is the one who had the most power and the friend must do as he said because the friend had no choice at all. The friend was so problematic because he had the ability to influence Georg. The friend made Georg became immature, incapable of dealing things on his own.