Soon after dinner, his father would go to sleep in
his chair, his mother and sister would urge each
other to be quiet, his mother, bent deeply under
the lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a
fashion shop, his sister, who had taken a sales
job, learned shorthand and french in the
evenings so that she might be able to get a
better position later on.
- franz kafka, the metamorphosis (david
wyllie, trans.)
what can you infer about grete from this passage from the metamorphosis?
o
a
that she is angry that gregor has put the family in this position
to b. that she is happy to have something to occupy her quiet time
oc. that she is learning new skills and becoming more worldly and confident
od that she dislikes having to eat dinner with gregor watching