"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

The Metamorphosis: A Family Tragedy By Melissa Mullins The long story The Metamorphosis is one that is very subtle and very delicate, yet at the same time quite disturbing. One doesn't expect to open a book and begin reading a story whose opening line finds the main character awakening to find that he has been transformed into a beetle-like insect. In reading the story I didn't find it to be in any way amusing or …

…by them through thick and thin, times of happiness and times of sorrow, whether they are rich or poor, and do not look at each other merely as a source of monetary sustenance. Those of us who can say we possess that kind of familial structure are indeed the lucky ones. Kennedy, X.J., and Gioia Dana. "The Metamorphosis" Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 2nd edition. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. 280-316.