Oh yeah, THIS is worth reading. Not joking at all.
It’s about a man who wakes up as a great big beetle-like thing. He was a former solider and had been happy once but that was a long time ago. Now he is the sole provider for his parents and his little sister and they are just worthless. Absolutely worthless. They leech off him and he’s not happy about it.
But here’s the thing: they’re not happy about it either and when he turns into this beetle the roles initially reverse and they have to take care of him but with no jobs, that’s a big ask.
So the father goes back to work and the mother rents out a room and the family suddenly realizes that they only THOUGHT they had nothing to offer so they never tried. Robbed of the guy they were mooching off of, they realized they are stronger and more resilient than they thought.
They’re still miserable, though, because they have to take care of this giant beetle.
Okay, small aside: most classic literature is spoiled. You know how Mice & Men ends and you might not have ever read it.
And studies have shown that if you know the ending you actually enjoy the story more.
But if that’s not the case for you, just go get this book and stop reading this.
I love this book. The learned helplessness of the family and the ridiculous martyrdom of the protagonist was so frustrating and well-written. I hated every single character in the best way if that makes sense.
And when our beetle guy gets stabbed and DIES and this turns out to be the family’s ticket to freedom, it really hit me.
I don’t think Kafka was writing about learned helplessness but that’s certainly what I got out of it and I began to look around me and wonder: as the breadwinner who is often not happy for a family who leans on me more and more, am I doing them a disservice by doing so much for them?
You know a book is good when it makes you reevaluate your whole life.
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