"The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation."

So funny story Gregor Samsa's family is a giant hulking piece of shit. Even before where the story begins, his family has thrust onto their son their massive debt, forcing him to work in a job he hates to pay it off. In the beginning, Gregor wakes up, and realizes he is late to work, and thinks to himself of the necessity of getting to work, " 'right now I have to get up. My train leaves at five o’clock' ” (Kafka 1). He, even in the state of being a bug, is still absolutely determined to get to work, work that he hates, in order to pay off a debt that isn't even his. AS muses about quitting, " 'If I didn’t hold back for my parents’ sake, I’d have quit ages ago. I would’ve gone to the boss and told him just what I think from the bottom of my heart' " (Kafka 1). Gregor wants desperately to leave, to quit, but he feels such loyalty and adherence to his parents' wishes that he feels he must help them. His parents' brainwashing of him has gotten to the point that Gregor even feels the debt is his own: not just the responsibility to pay it is his, but the very debt itself is his. As he talks to his manager after he lets him into his room, he says, " 'I am really so indebted to Mr. Chief—you know that perfectly well' " (Kafka 7). He has willingly taken on the debt as his own, devoted as he is to his parents, and they let him suffer for their own good. His family is taking advantage of him, working him miserably to the bone. They tell him they love him and they care for him to his face while their hands whip him in the back and force him to the ground to work
Gregor is indebted, at the rate he's going at now, to be working for five or six more years, "that [paying off the debt] should take another five or six years" (Kafka 1). He's resigned to working in misery for six years to pay off this debt, but he doesn't actually have t work for that long! Later, it is revelead that not only is his family living off the work that he does, taking the money to fund their own bloated lifestyles, they aren't even using all the possible money to pay off their debt, "the money which Gregor had brought home every month—he had kept only a few crowns for himself—had not been completely spent and had grown into a small capital amount" (Kafka 12). They are taking and hoarding and taking money from Gregor, the only person in the family that's actually doing anything productive or supportive, leaving him poor and overworked, resigned to continue being taken advantage of for years to come. At least in the end they finally get their due (partially) while they themselves get put to hard work, "they had been struck by a misfortune like no one else in their entire circle of relatives and acquaintances. What the world demands of poor people they now carried out to an extreme degree. The father bought breakfast to the petty officials at the bank, the mother sacrificed herself for the undergarments of strangers, the sister behind her desk was at the beck and call of customers, but the family’s energies did not extend any further" (Kafka 19). They now feel the soreness of hard labor, know what it is to support not only yourself but also something which does nothing on its own and must be taken care of. They deserve every iota of suffering they receive at the hands of their new situation, and it is a cruel disjustice that it is Gregor that dies in the end to leave his family to their own prosperous future, and not the family that lies down and dies like the dogs they are. Instead the bourgeois swine crawl away to reap the rewards of a new dominion.