Years ago, it began to grow along the steep hillside overlooking the valley. As a sapling, it weathered the wind that buffeted it, struggled until it reached a size that its roots ran strong and deep.
How it managed to not be decimated by the deer passing through, it wasn't quite sure. But it made it, alone and lone, firm, and strong.
Continuing with the Sadler's Lectures podcast series on Kafka's story The Metamorphosis, here's an episode on arguably the second most-important character in the story, Grete Samsa, Gregor's sister