I read Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis years ago. A month after reading it and thinking about it I came to the realisation that the real change that happened was what happened to the family of the main character. Everyone talks about it as if it's some weird, freaky story with odd prose that nobody can understand, but it's actually quite straightforward in it's style. Also, the family starts out as grumpy, whining people who do nothing but sit around complaining, and when Gregor can no longer support them, they buckle down, get jobs and sell off the trappings of upper middle class that they've been clinging to. In short, they go from being parasites to being people.
