Preview of The Castle Summary:

The variety of interpretations of The Castle, both of its central symbol and of its ultimate meaning, are bewildering in their variety and multiplicity.

One central interpretation has the village representing the norms of society—healthy, life-giving and secure, containing the blessings of human and bourgeois society — and the novel a chronicling of Joseph K.'s attempt to integrate himself into that world. Another critical stance sees the book containing a...