Question

In The Metamorphosis, what reason does Gregor give for staying at his job?

Answer 1

Gregor's feelings about his job as a traveling salesman are made clear very early in Part I of the story. He hates it for numerous reasons: God! . . . What a job I've chosen. Traveling day in, day out. A much more worrying occupation than working in the office! And apart from business itself, this plague of traveling: the anxieties of changing trains, the irregular, inferior meals, the ever changing faces, never to be...