Kafka's Voice and Vision

As I read the first chapter of metamorphosis, I found it interesting that the narration with Gregor was so calm and collected. Kafka utilized third person narration and chose a very matter of fact approach. In stead of using hyperboles and overexaggerations as many would with a story like this, Kafka used bluntness and underexaggeration to make the chapter more compelling as you focused on central concepts of relationships between characters and the situation itself instead of focusing just on the fact that Gregor became an insect.