In the short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka he lines reveals that:
Gregor does not want to leave.
The speaker is narrating in the third person concentrating mainly on the feelings, thoughts, and actions of Gregor Samsa in an unchanging and flat tone.
Once again, Melville devotes a chapter to the minutiae of the whaling industry, but in this case he extends his description of the whale line to its more metaphorical implications. Ishmael compares the whale line to a noose, and in turn compares this noose to the mortality of all humans. Once again, this metaphor takes on sinister implications, a reminder of impending death and destruction that may come at any moment.
