After reading and discussing the story of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” at class, it was an interesting topic to point out the possibility of gregor going mad rather than the transformation. But other than talking about Gregor’s situation, I would like to talk about the overall relationship among the family members. While reading the story, I just felt that the author was trying to point out a problem that was rising in that specific time and can be related to modern time as well. Nowadays, I believe many families are having more disconnection among familiy members compared to decades and even several years ago. When agriculture was the main source of living, the size of family were relatively larger than today. The family spent most of their day together building this special bond among the members. However, as cities were devloping and specific roles were designated to family members, this connection started to diminish. This is what i saw in the story of “Metamorphosis”. Other than their ordinary lives, the samsa family seemed to don’t know and don’t care of what was happening to their family members. I thought this was relative to what many families are experiencing these days. Both parents working all day, coming back home for dinner and have a brief meeting, kids are away playing games or watching tv or whatever they are up to, the parents are tired of the daily labor and try to rest themselves. This cycle of disfunction continues and parents have no idea what their kid is interested or doing, and even between spouses problems rise as well. It came up to my mind that, the author was maybe pointing out the image of a disfunctional family, which observed from the outside looks ordinary, but in the inside, there is no actual bond among the family members.