K.'s experience at Titorelli's house also seems like a landmark part of the plot progressions to me. The idea of connections in life being able to propel people into success is an idea that I've never truthfully wanted to believe, but know at heart is definitely true, and K.'s trip to Titorelli's house is one that exemplifies that.
I think Titorelli leads both K. and the reader on a bit to make it seem like Titorelli is K.'s only solution to getting out of his unfair quandary. Titorelli, to me, was put into the novel to show how screwed up K.'s society is at the core. Titorelli, an unsuccessful painter, symbolizes the only available person to give K. legal help, which is unusual, but anything is possible in a work by Kafka. Titorelli is also depicted as an unoriginal painter, and a painter who is a painter because he inherited the position, not because he wants to be a painter, which is also odd. Most people with jobs like painters do what they do because they love it, not because you inherited the position. Furthermore, Titorelli being unoriginal and just plain bad at creating art speaks volumes to the type of person K. is getting legal advice from. It's probably unoriginal advice, and it's probably useless advice. Regardless, K. buys into it and buys one of Titorelli's paintings as a favor.
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