Kafka's Modernization

Kafka has a more subtle version of modernization to me. Old gothic stories and tales involve the more eccentric fantasies of life, or the resistance of woman to the empirical system. But in "The Castle", we simply see a man on his way to a castle. He has to overcome such adversities as being questioned by the castellan's son, being unable to find his way to the castle, becoming exhausted and staying at a man's house. This story is all one large, gothic metaphor hinting at the resistance to empire and gothic tragedies in a less dramatic, more subtle way. We see his resistance in laying down at the castellan's son, emotion and confusion in losing his way to the castle, and giving in when exhaustion overtook him in the snow and took shelter in a nearby home.