Help understanding short story

[randomvw]

Here's the story. I have a paper due soon (Friday) and I was never good in "english", as in writing and sounding intellectual. This is where you guys come in. I have a paper due on a short story (The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka). The question is very awkward, and thus I can't BS my way through the paper. So, I'm not asking for an entire paper written, just three(3) reasons to support a thesis. The question, in a nutshell, is "Someone once stated it is a 'triumph of the self.' Do you agree or disagree" Any help would be appreciated.

[Rores28]

Here's the story. I have a paper due soon (Friday) and I was never good in "english", as in writing and sounding intellectual. This is where you guys come in. I have a paper due on a short story (The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka). The question is very awkward, and thus I can't BS my way through the paper. So, I'm not asking for an entire paper written, just three(3) reasons to support a thesis. The question, in a nutshell, is "Someone once stated it is a 'triumph of the self.' Do you agree or disagree" Any help would be appreciated.

I agree that it is. In the end Gregor (Main character) is able to rise above his appearance and assimilate himself into the "real" world despite such outwardly manifest signs of being an outsider. Gregor's turning into a bug represents the externalization of his insecurities. In the end when he goes out and gets a job despite his appearance you see that he has triumphed over his own internal problems and that he so much exudes this triumph that ultimately others are compelled to not only accept him but welcome him.

[Kyriakos]

I do not agree. Also i don't see at all how others welcomed him. From the start of the metamorphosis he is eternally kicked out of the world. Although his mother- and to some degree his sister, but she appears to have had a secret selfish end for doing so- accept that he has changed, and one can guess that his mother still loves him (although the other two members of the family keep trying to distance her from Gregor), the reality is that he is reduced to an insect, and no one challenges this.
Also i dont see how Gregor reached a thriumph in the end; he merely managed to let go and die. He did try to get back into the world, and in fact he tried this immediately (by wishing to speak to the person sent from work) and later on as well (in the nightly wandering outside of the room while the three youths who rented another room were present). But he clearly saw things in a very distorted manner, since no one wanted him to try to live like a human again.