One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. Gregor Samsa lives an uneventful life. That is, until one morning he awakes to find himself transformed into a monstrous, verminous bug. The celebrated work by Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis is a psychological study of Gregor's family and the world around him as Gregor endures a new and painful existence of a vermin.