A metaphorical metamorphosis

Gregor is metamorphosizing into someone who has become greatly dissatisfied with what once brought him satisfaction. He is growing to become someone who feels restless from his work, life, and achievements and wants deeper meaning. What used to bring him pride no longer does it for him. As the text states, "For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, even though he had been living in it for five years" (Kafka). The discontentedness is seeping into his psyche, and it starting to cause a shift in his personality. This is what his transformation into a bug serves as a metaphor for. As a bug, he now exhibits the traits that many bugs exhibit, and is dissatisfied with his human conditions. He no longer craves human food, he no longer enjoys his bedroom. He seeks something that humans would find disgusting and abhorrent. Metaphorically speaking, stepping back from work to focus on yourself has become frowned upon by society, and because of this he is now craving something that humans have come to look down upon in a metaphorical sense too. He is now a "bug" to society, and the people around him are starting to treat him as such. Gregor's metamorphoses represents a metaphorical one. He is being transformed into something less valued by society in a physical sense, but also in a more illusive sense. He is desiring the things society pushes people to reject.