>"Would you still love me if I was a bug?">"No."
>>24782254You wouldn't shove your bug gf into your urethra to crawl around to make her vacation home within you?Gay.
If they were that size then maybe>>24782260
>>24782264you will never be a beetle
>>24782266excellent reply
This book is about NEETs. The cockroach and its grotesqueness is metaphor for how society sees working-age men who do not work and provide. His family hated him, and then felt relieved when he killed himself by not eating.
>>24782254Whiny incel beetles! Spend less time in bed and more time polishing your horns and maybe you'd snag a roach or two.
>>24782428Basically but I took it more as depression and lethargy in general. > how society sees working-age men who do not work and provideHe sees himself as a bug as well and hates it. It’s self loathing made manifest. He doesn’t want to impose on his family but he must, he tries to stop being a bug and bug like (hiding in the room, making a mess) but can’t. He hates himself for it and sees his family loathing him even as they try not to attack him directly and force him gone. The idea of having some universal value to society or your loved ones is a modern myth. Thinly veiled disgust is on the money.
>>24782428>>24782660doesnt he also crawl around on the walls and roof while leaving a sticky goo everywhere? i think he literally turns into a bug the moral is dont wake up as a bug
>Nabokov: jit is the second best story in the English language>read it>it was…alright?I clearly don’t understand literature
>>24782646damn, this beetle looks metal as fuck.
>>24782428No it's about how he actually turned into a bug. Bugs are gross, he left slime everywhere.
>>24782254Yes for most people if she suddenly turned into a bug (implied through the sentence's grammatical structure). No if she'd always been one. I'm not sure how one would even come to love a bug in a romantic way.
>>24782690The sentence means she was once a bug, but no longer. Could you love a former bug?
