Gregor's
death, which is effectively suicide, is indeed a sacrifice, and that's how Gregor sees it
himself. He knows that, so long as he remains a giant bug, he will always be a burden to his
family, and that's the last thing he wants. Unable to venture outside the confines of the family
home due to his unusual condition, he has no comfort zone in his life, nowhere he can attain
some measure of peace and security. Trapped by his situation, rejected by his family, he decides
that he has no choice but to die.
At the same time, Gregor's death can be
seen as an act of taking control, the only means of doing so for someone in his position. One
might argue that he was spiritually dead before his metamorphosis, slaving away at a job that he
positively loathed. In that sense, he was sacrificing his happiness to bring money into the
family home. Gregor's sad demise, then, represents the culmination of a pattern of behavior over
time.
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