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From Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

(1)One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and
if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed
ready to slide off any moment His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked
(2) What's happened to me?" he thought it wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls
A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table -Samsa was a travelling salesman -- and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an
illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered
the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer
(3) Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "How about if I sleep
a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense" he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his
present state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was He must have tried it a hundred
times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the foundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt
before
What main conflict is revealed so far in this story?
1.Gregor does not enjoy his job.
2.Gregor is having disturbing dreams
3.Gregor has transformed into a bug
4.Gregor cannot sleep

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Answer:

3.Gregor has transformed into a bug.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Kafka´s novella, Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to discover that he has inexplicably been transformed into some sort of horrible bug. As this realization dawns on Gregor, as he realizes that he is not dreaming, he begins to struggle with his new bodily condition as well as with a new and nascent form of consciousness, one that is becoming animal at the same time that he becomes human in ways that are unfathomable to his family.

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