True Romance

I always knew Franz Kafka from "Metamorphosis" and I thought that was absurd. A boy turning into a bug and his family begins to ignore and shun him. However, another story I found to be interesting was "The Judgment" because it was a really weird story and Kafka concocts it in a fashion that is brilliant. The detail I vividly remembered after reading it was the father of the main character's room. I remember how everything was unkempt and it plagued me as to why it was and remained unkempt. I wasn't sure if the father kept it that way because he had no one to help him or if he was just too busy writing to his son's friends or even just to deceive his son into thinking he was pretty much a kripple and unable to care for himself. I guess I kept wondering this because his son was around, even though he didn't constantly visit. I did use Jung's concept of imago analyzing it because both characters never see the reality in the other. They have their own projections of each other.

I think Kafka could have elaborated a little bit about the motive of the father - either loneliness or vengeance - and about Georg's (the main character) inner tensions with marriage and his friend in Russia. Kafka, though, does keep us in tune till the very end - shocking end.