It is undeniable that there is a sense of humor to The Metamorphosis, especially when scenes are acted out by Mr. Mitchell. However, as the book progresses, the amount of humor in the book gets to be less and less, and it instead starts to seem more mundane and depressing. In a way, the humor of the book seems stay even with just how human Gregor feels. At the start, when the book is at its most humorous, he is still thinking like he's a normal human. But by where we have read to now, the book is clearly less funny, and Gregor has become noticeably less human.
So, the question is, what is it at the start of the book that makes it funny. For myself and based of what we discussed in class, the humor in that section is the fact that a giant cockroach is planning out his day like he is human. The fact that when he realizes he is a giant insect he thinks of it as an inconvenience in his daily routine is ridiculous in a way that makes it seem funny. This continues throughout that section where he tries to do simple human things, or thinks about doing them, and fails. One such example is him trying to get out of bed. That's something most people don't find too difficult, except for the part where they have to decide to actually get up. However, he has the upmost difficulty in doing so, and we get a quite funny description of his legs flailing uselessly.
However, in the second segment, Gregor has become much more insect-like. He's locked in his room and has started to basically live under his sofa. He has also stopped trying to act human. He's given up on trying to walk like a human and hasn't thought about putting on clothes or any other normal human act he thought about at the start. This makes it seem like he has given up and makes it drastically less funny and much more sad.
