After reading both stories it felt like a cockroach and Gregor had switch bodies. Murakami's side of the story seems more of the perspective of the cockroach turning into a human while Metamorphosis was Gregor turning into a cockroach. Murakami’s story seems to be a sequel to Kafta’s story. At first, I thought that Gregor had turned back into a human because he woke up very skinny and weak and I thought about how he shriveled up and starved in Metamorphosis but as I kept reading the story, it felt like he did not know how to be a human which makes me think he was a cockroach previously. The cockroach had some memories but did not know why he had them but that those memories just made sense with him. I think it was because the cockroach was already living in the same space as Gregor. Also, Gregor in Samsa in Love mentioned birds a couple of times which made me think that Gregor in the story was a cockroach previously since he was a bug and birds eat bugs to live.
I felt that the tone in both stories was different, in Metamorphosis, I felt bad for the character because his family basically cast him to the side and was done with him even though he was the one that supported them through the rough patch they had in their lives. Gregor has a kind heart for his family and wanted what was best for them but they did not reciprocate for long when he was a cockroach.
In Samsa in Love, Gregor did not know anything and how to function with himself. However, the girl that came by to fix the lock was not mean nor very friendly in the beginning but was nice to him even when he struck her as odd and slow. Gregor was still learning about himself and the girl helps with explaining and letting him know a thing or two about what is going on. Gregor mentioned that he was glad to be human while in Metamorphosis, Gregor wishes he was human again.
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