Metamorphosis

To describe Greta as a manipulative female is to completely and utterly misunderstand Kafka’s message within the novel, //Metamorphosis.// On completing the text, one cannot ignore the fact that Kafka portrays a character that is, from the very beginning of the novel, and at the very end, an absolute victim of a male social hegemony, a hegemony that not only subjugates and controls her actions but also manipulates her behaviour around men, thus ensuring that she behaves in a stereotypical fashion whilst interacting with them. Therefore, Kafka shows a girl whose behaviour is irrevocably dictated by and influenced through, a social structure headed by men and significantly the only part of the novel where she strays temporarily free of these chains of domination, is the center of the novel, when both males are in a transient and weakened state.
 * It Has Been Said That Rather than a Manipulative Female Greta Is A Victim. Discuss.**