How significant can a picture of a woman in fur be when you try to hold it dear as the only resemblanceeft to humanife? When Gregor Samsa wakes up in his bed, he is aghast to find himself transformed into a giant bug. He is now to spend the rest of hisife in that state.ife to him becomes a struggle to align hisingering humanity and his transformed physicality. Thus begins Metamorphosis. Delving into absurdity ofife, the disconnect between the mind and body andimits of sympathy, the book has been cited as one of the seminal works of twentieth-century fiction.