If Only Gregor and His Family Had Trust

     After reading Metamorphosis, I see how much I view success as closeness and trust when it comes to the private sector. Gregor did not have a reliable, or honestly kind family to fall back on, and I do not think this equaled success. For me, success in that situation would be either to be able to trust my family to take care of me, or instead to care for my family in bug shape. Either way, trust shows success in relationships. 

    To go even further into it, I think the measure of success in relationships is what you get out of the trust. Gregor trusted his family, even thinking of them as he died-"...thought back on his family with tenderness and love..." (219). But his family did not embrace that trust, and to me, that marks a lack of success. 

    In the public sphere, Gregor showed me what success wasn't in work. In my mind, work should not be something that defines you and takes away who you are as a person. Gregor was not in love with his job, and he was only seen as a method of money. Success would be loving your job and gaining personality from it, not losing it over time. 

    This connects the two spheres, as the trust in the private sector must come from somewhere besides money and the usefulness of the other people. And success at work can only happen when it adds to who you are in a positive way, and you love it, not the other way around.