The Metamorphosis was a very interesting piece. It responded to the war in a very different way. One of the ways it did that was by making the main character a bug. It showed that after the war people did not come back as the person they were when they left. The expectations were very high and demanding on the men and most of those expectations changed who they were. The men fought for a purpose, but that was their only purpose. Once their purpose was complete and they came home from the war their lives were changed drastically. Many of the men did not know how to go on with their lives and many of their families did not know how to interact with them. This is a good intertwining with the piece that we read because not only does the bug want to be seen, but how is his family supposed to react to the change that their son has become? This was a very big question during and after the war. Many people did not know how to treat their loved ones and they became lost.