Someone must have slandered Josef K., because without him having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. “Like a dog!” he said, it was as if the shame should outlive him. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin in his bed. And it was like a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when, at the end of their journey, their daughter was the first to rise and stretch her young body.e must have slandered Josef K., because without him having done anything wrong, he was arrested one morning. “Like a dog!” he said, it was as if shame should outlive him. When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin in his bed.