It would seem Kafka’s opening sentence is amazingly straightforward, paralleled to the reality. For an opening, the first sentence of the novella is very hard to beat in terms of being sheer absurdity. The idea of waking up as an insect is so extraordinary that you might find yourself re-reading the sentence, trying to figure out if there's anything in those "unsettling dreams" that might be a reason which triggered the change in Gregor’s body type. Gilman similarly displays how Jane doesn’t recognise how she is quite distant from society-purposefully secluded by John, who knows of the mental instability which makes him intentionally dispersed from society.
Both novels snatch the ability of the characters to speak, not allowing Gregor and Jane to express their views as well as display how they feel. Being alone forces Gregor to create distance between the only people he interacted with-his family and “casual acquaintances.” The “yellow wallpaper” similarly doesn’t allow Jane to voice her opinions as …show more content…
“At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.” Soon enough Jane identifies with the woman trapped in the wallpaper- we understand that her subconscious is more aware of her imprisonment than her conscious mind, which continues to believe that John wants the best for Jane. Also in the metamorphosis where Kafka says, “why don’t I keep sleeping a little while longer…for he was used to sleeping on his right side.” Kafka portrays Gregor as a little paranoid and his concentration of not worrying in regards to being a bug, but wondering about how he will sleep, adds to the ludicrous reality he has become a part