What is the significance of the use of windows and doors in "The Metamorphosis"? I need to know about the use of doors and windows as motifs and how...

In one
sense, door and windows play a highly conventional role as motifs in 's novella,
, in that they figure as thresholds. They are boundaries between
experiential worlds (public and private, individual and collective), rather than merely means of
spatial demarcation. Kafka's originality lies in the multiple uses to which he puts these common
motifs. Here, I shall discuss windows first and then doors.

We hear of the
window in the 's bedroom very early on. Notably, the window is not used to signify a portal to
the outside world (which is appropriate as, for the moment, Gregor is completely absorbed in his
own experience) but rather as a repository of sounds that are an inducement to
melancholy:

The dreary weather (the rain drops were
falling audibly down on the metal window ledge) made him quite melancholy.

Here, neither the reader nor Gregor "sees" anything out
the window; rather, we "hear" it.

Kafka also uses the bedroom
window to signify Gregor's...