gregor is a mood
Gregor wakes up as an insect and his main priority isn’t “oh no I’m a bug how do I become human again?”, it’s “oh no how am I going to get to work?” and I think that on some level this is really relatable. I think I would freak out about being an insect, but once I’ve calmed down I would have gotten stressed again about not knowing how to live my life. And it makes sense that I would care about getting to school or that Gregor cared about getting to work because those are very important things. For us, school is a must and it’s hard to miss a day because the work builds up and it just adds to the stress. For Gregor, he has to get to work because he needs this job to sustain his family. So being an insect is a lot less important than work, especially since he’s the only one working and he has to work not only to pay off his dad’s debts but also to pay for their lifestyle of lavish breakfast and having a cook and a maid. For us, school is the most important thing right now and we also h...