While it was difficult to find any links between Kafka's The Metamorphosis and WWI, I thought that Gregor would have related very well to some of the characters in the texts we've read so far this semester. Like the "lost" characters in The Sun Also Rises, he goes through a life-changing experience, all the while totally unprepared for changes he must overcome and essentially loses the ability to function. It is interesting to look at Gregor's physical transformation in comparison to the emotional transformations that characters like Vera, Jake, Brett, etc. go through in the aftermath of the War. The aspect of Gregor's metamorphosis that I find so interesting is the fact that it happens overnight and is never explained or even really questioned by Gregor himself; he just goes on living life as if it is his burden to bear. I see his physical burden as a parallel to the emotional turmoil caused by PTSD-- the sufferers cannot seem to make sense of what has happened to them but are forced to live with a new reality. In my mind, the senseless and injustice of Gregor's transformation has a clear connection to the injustice and chaos of the War.