A Bug's Life?

Let's be honest: even after days of discussion in class over The Metamorphosis by Kafka, I still don't fully understand it. And I don't think I ever will. I wish I could read this allegory and immediately think, "Why yes, this is a perfect model of the de-humanization of industrialization" while I just thought, "Why is this man a bug?" So, in relation to my question, Gregor does not overcome adversity, but his family does. I think the difference that is made for the family is when the person that they were relying on was taken out of their lives. When their comfort was eliminated, they found that it was their time to step up to the challenge and accept life in that spirit. All along they could have succeeded, but it wasn't until they did it for themselves that they found they could.