The following question has two parts. answer part a first, and then part b.
part a
in “the metamorphosis,” as his life as an insect continues, gregor begins to lose interest in living. which of these events most significantly leads to gregor’s deterioration?
a. gregor discovers that other people cannot understand his speech.
b. his angry father treats him like a menace and throws apples at him.
c. his parents treat the lodgers with more concern than they have for gregor.
d. grete no longer shows compassion for him and treats him with indifference.
part b
which quotation from “the metamorphosis" best supports the answer to part a?
a. all right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him…. but at least people now thought that things were not all right with him and were prepared to him.
b. gregor's serious wound … (since no one ventured to remove the apple), seemed by itself to have reminded the father that … gregor was a member of the family, something one should not treat as an enemy.
c. he was filled with sheer anger over the wretched care he was getting.… without thinking any more about how one might be able to give gregor special pleasure, the sister now kicked some food or other very quickly into his room.
d. because the lodgers sometimes also took their evening meal at home in the common living room, the door to the living room stayed shut on many evenings. but gregor had no trouble at all going without the open door.