One morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin .how does this opening sentence add surprise? a. the sentence suggests that gregor's transformation happened over a long period of time. b. the reader has had time to adjust to the idea of the narrator being a vermin. c. the sentence suggests that the man is wearing a disguise to frighten his family. d. the reader is shocked to discover so quickly that the narrator is a vermin.

The answer is:

D. The reader is shocked to discover so quickly that the narrator is a vermin.

As it initiates the action, the first appearance that we have is that "One morning" this was sudden, overnight, and after "Troubled dreams" this means that it wasn´t an easy night for our narrator, this way they can use this opening sentence to add surprise.

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