Everything he loves has been taken from him. He stops eating and grows weaker and weaker from his wounds. We find the turn in the plot when Gregor’s family abandons him to the waste of his room.
Third Plot Point: The Third Plot Point here isn’t so much a moment, since it is not dramatized, but rather summarized. One of the apples lodges in Gregor’s abdomen, grievously wounding him. Second Pinch Point: The father returns home to the scene of chaos and attacks Gregor by throwing apples at him. He reveals himself to his mother, who faints-which finally turns his sister against him. He experiences a Moment of Truth, in which he chooses to fight off his new bug nature in favor of his old humanity. Midpoint: Despite his growing desire to be free to climb about on the walls of his room, Gregor finds that he resents his mother and sister’s trying to remove all the furniture from his room. Here, the need for money inexorably flexes its inevitability and changes the family dynamic forever. The primary antagonistic force in this story is arguably the family’s need to support themselves-something they previously always relied upon Gregor to do for them. The father must go out and get a job for the first time in a long while. His father drives him back to his room, wounding him in the process.įirst Pinch Point: Now that Gregor has lost his job, finances become a major problem for the family. He leaves the Normal World of the First Act (i.e., passive observation and acceptance of his new form) for the “adventure world” of the Second, in which he is feared and reviled by everyone around him. In so doing, he reveals his new form to the manager and his own family for the first time. It is now rocked by conflicting needs.įirst Plot Point: Gregor finally makes it out of bed and through the bedroom door in an effort to apologize to the manager. Now, suddenly, Gregor’s Normal World (such s it is within the scope of the story) as a beetle can no longer remain in passivity. The Inciting Event occurs, just as it should, halfway through the First Act when Gregor’s overbearing manager arrives to demand why Gregor is abnormally late for work. Why? Because it involves no conflict Gregory’s predicament is just under observation at this point.
Although this is, of course, the incident that launches the entire story (the first domino in the line of dominos that form the plot), it is not, strictly speaking, the inciting event.
Inciting Event: In the first line, Gregor wakes up, metamorphosed into a large beetle.
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