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Dramatic Irony
Section 2
Explanation and Analysis—Can He Understand Us?:
Gregor's family engages in a fallacy when they assume that he can not understand them just because they can not understand him. While this fallacious reasoning occurs throughout the entire story, it is particularly evident when Kafka writes:
Under what pretext the doctor and the locksmith had been got rid of on that first morning Gregor could not discover, for since what he said was not understood by the others it never struck any of them, not even his sister, that he could understand what they said.
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