# The Metamorphosis — Character guide

> Key figures in The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

- [Gregor Samsa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/5200/characters/gregor_samsa.md): Gregor has spent years crisscrossing the country with textile samples, enduring bad food and fleeting acquaintances, all to clear his parents' debts and keep his sister comfortable. When he wakes transformed, his mind st
- [Gregor's Sister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/5200/characters/gregors_sister.md): Grete is the one who first dares to enter Gregor's room, bringing bread, milk, and scraps she guesses he might eat, and she takes quiet pride in managing what the others cannot face. Yet she is also a young woman whose o
- [Gregor's Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/5200/characters/gregors_father.md): Before the change, he was a tired old man who fell asleep at the table and had to be helped to bed by his wife and daughter. Afterward he takes a job as a bank messenger, puts on a uniform, and discovers a new, harsh aut
- [Gregor's Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/5200/characters/gregors_mother.md): She faints at her first sight of Gregor and afterward can only enter his room when someone else is there, yet she still whispers his name and begs the others not to take his furniture away. Her sewing for strangers and h

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