The last thing he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging him to spare Gregor's life.
Utolsó pillantásával még látta, amint felrántják szobájának ajtaját, és kiáltozó húga előtt besiet anyja, ingben, a leány ugyanis levetkőztette, hogy szabadabban lélegezhessen ájultságában; odarohan az apához, és útközben sorra lecsúsznak róla kigombolt szoknyái; szoknyáiban megbotolva ráveti magát az apára, és átkarolva, teljesen eggyé válva vele - Gregor szeme ekkor már felmondta a szolgálatot -, kezét az apa nyakán összekulcsolva Gregor életéért könyörög.