The Metamorphosis

I'm quoting from a discussion of "The Metamorphosis", which is a short story written by Franz Kafka. He states, "The terror of art is that the dream reveals the reality." What I think he means by this quote is that it is pretty scary that our dreams and the subliminal messages that are incorporated into art itself are all forms of the truth in disguise. In many abstract paintings and art sculptures, the artist incorporates meanings and subliminal messages that they try to reveal amongst the public that they cannot verbally express without controversial results. He might also mean that we as a society like to sugar coat things that may not necessarily be accepted in the widespread scheme of things. We sugarcoat to avoid the harshness of what we can't accept as truth. In regards to how the quote pertains to The Metamorphosis, it shows how the story itself is trying to have an innermost meaning or message for the reader and audience to decipher. There is a underlying message that the reader or the audience must discover upon reading the short story in order to understand the particular message that Kafka is trying to imply. With this quote saying that the "dream reveals the reality" is the fact that by hiding the truth within something as medial as a short story, the author is allowed to express controversial ideas that may not necessarily be accepted out in the real world. Also in regards to the story, Gregor hopes that his family could accept him as the bug that he has turned into, but this is simply disregarded and revealed to just be too high of a hope to wish for.