Can you take a best picture
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.
Synonyms of dis-simulation or dissimulate are to disguise, cover up, hide, conceal, or being hypocritical