3rd Body Paragraph

At the beginning of the novel, Kafka characterizes Joseph K. as a man who devotes a significant amount of time to business. In fact, he describes himself as being a business man thinks of himself higher than he does others in his workplace. K. describes how others were jealous because he is so devoted and excels in his occupational environment. However, the alienation that is caused by the trial begins to impede on this environment due to the fact that it is drawing all of his attention and time. People in his workplace begin to recognize this odd occurrence and attempt to alleviate any extra stress or pressure that is caused by work. In fact, the Vice President of K.’s company steals a client from K. and goes as far as explaining the predicament that K. is in to the client. This just further alienates K. instead of helping him in a positive way. He is now forced to act alone in work and lets the trial consume more parts of his work. Even though the boss thinks that he may be helping Joseph, in reality, he is probably just creating more chaos for a man who does not need more of that. “Didn’t a painstaking defense simultaneously imply the necessity of cutting himself of as far as possible from everything else? Would he successfully survive that?”. This quote explains the idea that the different aspects his life from before the trial kept K. sane. While others may think that alleviating work from a man may make him better, you are in reality taking away something that he is used to doing everyday and it makes him happy. This image that is created at the beginning of K. being a businessman is slowly beginning to disappear. He is now being looked at as a charity case who needs help in everyway possible or else he may not survive the trial. The trial is starting to take over the one part of his life that he cared the most about and once you take over that part of K.’s life, he is going to be completely shut out from the outside world. This situation is going to force K. to begin to work on his trial more and more ultimately causing him to fold and crash. If the trial did not consume his entire life, then he might have pursued his career further and ultimately had a better life for himself. The trial truly messed up his chances in this regard.