Kafka's the metamorphosis was published in 1915 and describes as a typical family during that era. what social norm does gregor's family demonstrate?

a. young adults were not expected to get jobs until they felt like it.

b. elderly often were unable to save enough money to retire and relied on their children to pay their bills.

c. young adults were expected to choose only a career that they loved.

d. elderly parents usually saved enough money for their children so that no one in the family would have to work.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive