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This passage talks about how Gregor feels about his family taking his belongings out of his room. He talks about using the words 'taking away everything he loved'. This shows that he has a severe attachment to his material belongings, something that his mother and sister are ruining, by taking them away from him. He decides that he has no more time to waste with their good intentions, and breaks out. This shows that he no longer wants to be kept inside the building by their hatred for him, and wants to do something about it. He constantly refers to his sister and mother as Grete and her mother, showing the detachment that he has from his family. Also, he is willing to attack his sister to stop them from taking the picture that he loves in his room. This shows how much he hates his family for regarding him so lowly.

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Gregor feels unloved and forgotten by his family, in his new state of being. He begins to believe that they are attacking him, and hurting him deliberatly, and are deliberatly not treating him as a family member.

"They were cleaning his room out; taking away everything he loved; the chest in which he kept his jigsaw and other tools was already dragged off; they were now lossening the desk which had almost sunk into the floor, the desk at which he had done all his homework when he was at the commercial academy, at the secondary school before that, and, yes, even at the primary school..."

In the two pages that this extract is taken from, Gregor recounts how they no longer care about his possessions, and begin taking them away from his room. If you were having possessions taken away from you, you would feel unloved. The line after this passage says 'he had no more time to waste on the good intentions of these two women'. The fact that he uses 'two women' shows that he no longer feels an attachment to the two women, who were infact his sister and mother. Further on down in the text, Gregor refers to the women as Grete and her mother. Her mother! This shows severe deattachment, as he no longer refers to his mother as his mother. He refers to her as her mother, showing that he believes she is no longer caring for him, something that I believe makes up a major part of being a mother. At the very end of the text, Gregor says that he 'would rather fly in her Grete's face'. Until this point he has been peaceful, content to stay out of the way of his family. But at this point he decides to throw all of that out the window, so that he can protect the sole possession that he has left, a picture.

In the end, it is clear that Gregor feels that his family has abandoned him, and infact feels that the family ties that he used to have with them have disappeared, and no longer believes that he knows them.