"Gregor really felt quite well"...and was a bug.

     Something I thought was really strange in Part I of Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka), was that Gregor, the protagonist, didn't seem very bothered by fact that he had turned into an insect overnight. Gregor wakes up with an "armor-plated back", a "domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments", and "numerous legs", and he even acknowledges that this change is not part of a dream. Yet strangely, he seems unconcerned.
     "What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream" (Kafka 53) and yes, thats all that is said, never again in Part I does he wonder what is wrong with him. "Gregor really felt quite well, apart from a drowsiness that was quite inexcusable after such a long sleep, and he was even unusually hungry"(55)...uh, Gregor? FYI, You're a bug. So why does he feel "quite well"? I seriously cannot say.
     He describes his transformation as a "predicament", a "circumstance", or "morning delusions", but even when he realizes it isn't a delusion, he doesn't seem to be very disturbed by it. Frankly, Gregor is more worried about the fact that he's late for work than the fact that he's transformed into an insect. "Heavenly Father! he thought. It was half-past six and the hands were quietly moving on" (55). This honestly makes no sense to me whatsoever. Someone needs to go back and change this to: Heavenly Father! he thought. I AM NOT HUMAN ANYMORE, WHAAAAAAAT?!!!!
     "The next train went at seven o'clock; to catch that he would need to hurry like mad and his samples weren't even packed, and he himself wasn't feeling particularly fresh and energetic" (55). Yeah, Greg, I can't think of any reasons why you might not be fresh and energetic at the moment... Why is he even thinking about catching a train, doesn't he realize that he's not really a human being anymore? This is also whats strange, because he does realize, yet all he cares about is catching this seven o'clock train and going to work. "Before it strikes a quarter past seven I absolutely must be quite out of this bed, without fail" (58). It's sad that getting to work is so important to him. It shows how he's almost been "trained" to think this way, to go to work a job he doesn't even like. Gregor, is chained to his job by the debt of his parents, and because of that he must be obedient, almost like a dog, or any other pet. Gregor doesn't care that he's a bug, because he's become so docile and submissive, that his only goal is to work, to pay of his parents debt, everything else isn't considered.
     It's almost like as long he's alive, bug or no bug, he is expected to work. These expectations are not only made my others, but they're also made by himself.