Post #4- I can't stop writing about Metamorphosis

When I read the phrase "resists interpretation" I can't think of a more fitting short story than Metamorphosis. Kafka's story probably has about 10 million different interpretations, and most of them are probably valid. The title Metamorphosis draws attention to the transformation itself. Perhaps this is what is key to the story's meaning. The story's unusual structure, with the climax (transformation) at the beginning of the story, and continued narration after the death of the main character (a transfer from following Gregor to a more omniscient point of view) can be reasoned, but not with certainty. There are many ideas about the economic implications of the story and the personal implications of the story. Kafka seems to manipulate the story to create infinite questions in the reader's mind, and then to purposefully avoid answering a single one of them. Gregor transforms, but why? Why does the story continue after his death? Why isn't his transformation a bigger deal? Why does his father throw the apple at him? The events are there in the text, but the reasons behind them are not, and the reader is left to come up with his/her own opinions about the story. If Kafka's personal life is examined, it seems deceptively simple to connect Gregor's relationship with his father to Kafka's own relationship with his father, but the story is much to complex to lend itself to this one oversimplified interpretation.