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All of the successful qualities present in K. during the brief encounter before his arrest quickly evaporated as his life went on after his arrest. His qualities of getting the job done, and finding a way to make things work out in his favor turned into qualities of sluggishness and inefficiency. A man once described as being persistent and climbing the ladder of success at his bank quickly took a 360 degree turn into someone completely different. The trial became too much for K. to handle, but it's not like he did not put up a decent fight. He started going to his trial "hearings" and soon realized that the whole system was basically some phony, societal based community of student lawyers. He becomes completely obsessed with his trial, showing up to the court rooms on days that weren't even assigned as days just because maybe there was a chance that he did have a hearing that day, and he accidentally forgot about it. This begins to show the obsessive behavior that K. develops over time, which leads to his ultimate demise as a character. The obsessive behavior displayed by K. in the middle of the novel begin to leak in his work. K. turns to the painter, Titorelli, for help. Titorelli offers some help, but gives no definitive answers, leading K. to hire a lawyer. K. gives his case up to someone else, instead of taking it by the horns and trying to take the case on by himself. The biggest turning point for K. is when he sees the lawyer's client who has the same problem as K. He shows to both K. and to the reader that once you're stuck in the trial system, you're stuck for life, and have to devote your life to basically just prolong your existence on the planet. So, instead of trying to find an answer to this, or working through the process, he just decides to fire his lawyer, and take the trial into his own (now lazy and indifferent) hands. Rather than working through the process with his lawyer, and prolonging his life span, he decided to throw in the towel and call it quits. The whole dynamic displayed by Kafka in this novel help show the deterioration of a once very successful young man with a lot of potential. Kafka uses K. and the trial to show how certain aspects of the governing bodies around us can sometimes change who we are and ultimately control who we are at our core existences.