Stranger Than Fiction: Samsa & Samsara

Sticking with lit., I decided to read for Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. In the novella, a young salesman supporting his parents and sister becomes an insect. What is The Metamorphosis an allegory for? and what does it say about Kafka himself? The card I pulled was The Hierophant 5 I Confess On a very basic level, The Metamorphosis could be said