Throughout the entire read of Metamorphosis, I experienced a variety of feelings towards the text such as empathy and frustration. However, there was one emotion that particularly stuck with me not only while I was reading, but after as well. Anxiety is something I experience on a daily basis and definitely something Gregor and his entirely family experience. I chose images that most represented this anxiety. The order in which I decided to show off my pictures is based on speed. At least for me, anxiety has a lot to do with how fast or slow something is happening. The faster images are first and it gets slower and the gallery progresses. I started with Michael Goldberg’s picture of the car going at 120 miles per hour. Going at such a fast and dangerous speed would definitely keep me on the edge of my seat the entire time, holding on for my life. Another fast image is the picture of the train doors closing, taken by Marc. Everyone can relate to that feeling of running to make the train before the doors close completely and the momentary anxiety attack that happens as you leap to catch it.  Khrystyna’s picture of the clock captures the anxiety of time escaping us. The constant passing of time makes us nervous because that means we are running out of it. In Metamorphosis, Gregor’s alarm clock continuously ringing is the part I related to especially and I compared it to my mornings before school when the hardest thing in the world would be getting out of bed.

The picture of the tied scoreboard, taken by Jake, also shows anxiety because as a viewer we’re cheering for a team to win. When neither team wins nor loses that doesn’t settle and we don’t leave the stadium satisfied. Whether or not you’re in a rush, but especially when you’re in a rush, the last thing you need is to be stuck in traffic. I took the picture this weekend sitting in a car during horrific traffic. Standing in traffic can make you lose hours of your time and you literally don’t get anywhere. Being late makes me anxious, so naturally standing in traffic creates that anxiety because I’m late as a result. Other causes of lateness to class, work, or any event, is delays in the train. The announcement we all dread is “We are being held momentarily by the train’s dispatcher. Please be patient.” This one is a daily cause of anxiety for me personally and I took the picture, with the thought that it captured the novella accurately, but with a different light than most people would expect.  Thus, my mini exhibition is a mixture of speed, tied together with the feeling of anxiety that I felt throughout the reading of Metamorphosis.