The last word of the first line is sometimes translated as bug, **roach, or insect, but Kafka intended it to be vermin." Definition for vermin: Vermin is a term given to animals which are considered by humans to be pests or nuisances, most associated with the carrying of disease.
Disease-carrying rodents and insects are the usual case but the term can also apply to larger animals, on the basis that they exist out of
ecological balance with their environment." Why did Kafka leave the term abstract? What might the bug transformation symbolize?