Fics like On Grime and Respectability

Every day, Mr. Samsa walked through the streets and went to the bank with a lingering presence of filth, with the image of a giant, scuttling insect in the back of his mind. His being was a tense mass, holding himself together, holding his secrets together, preserving the image of the family against the forces of the universe and the prying eyes of the city. He could feel gazes on him at all times, and the image in the mirror was one he went to often, for it was a necessity to see himself, to see his features, and be reassured that they were still average and not at all out of the ordinary. His hands were cracked and red and itchy and still, he washed them. Soap, hot water, rubbing—he scrubbed the filth, and scrubbed it again, and again and again, until there was not a speck of dirt left on them. Or, a look into the thoughts of Gregor's father in The Metamorphosis.

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