Symphathy or not?

Symphathy?
I do not believe that Kafka was trying to get the reader to sympathize with Gregor. I believe that Kafka was using the “metaphor effect” to show something greater, a greater message. Perhaps the most wonderful thing about literature is that an author has unlimited possibilities in the ways they express their ideas. It was as though the metamorphosis was an allegory or a metaphor to teach Gregor and the people around him (his family) that they needed to do something greater with their lives. Gregor soon realized this in the second part of The Metamorphosis. “Now his father was still hale enough but an old man, and he had done no work for the past five years and could not be expected to do much. Gregor’s old mother how was she to earn a living with her asthma, which troubled her even when she walked through the flat and kept her laying on a sofa every other day painting for breath beside an open window. The only thing his sister did to earn her bread was only dress herself nicely, sleep long, help in the housekeeping, go out to a few modest entertainments, and above all playing the violin.”
His metamorphosis was a way that Kafka showed Gregor and his family that the way they were living life was not the way to live life. Although the story never mocks the transformation it does use the metaphor to teach a moral. Through the transformation Gregor was realizing that his family needed him, but it also taught him that he is not indispensable. At the end of the story, the three members of his family left the apartment and went by tram into the open country outside the town. Each member of the family found a way to survive without Gregor. His father attacked him with an apple, his mother lost faith in his recovery, and his sister became too busy to care for his father.
Gregor was always more concerned with others’ feelings and their well being other than himself. He is responsible for all the revenue of his family. In the first part of the story he says, “If the were horrified then the responsibility was no longer his.” He hopes that after the chief clerk and his family sees his conversion, they will have compassion towards him. He was hoping for encouragement when he was opening the door but instead he received nothing, no encouragement, no help, and no compassion. Through the metaphor we learn to appreciate ourselves in all forms and then appreciate others around you. We need to appreciate ourselves spiritually, physically, and mentally. You must always find the balance within yourself and then you can take care of everyone else. Since Gregor did not care for him, a phenomenon occurred and he turned into a "monstrous vermin."