Natalie's Fourth Reaction

In Chapter 3 of The Trial, we once again see how unorganized the court is. K. shows up for his hearing, but then is told that there is no meeting that Sunday. K. had no notification of this and was not advised. I feel like even if there had been a hearing K. still would not have gotten advised. The court offices are also located in the attic. K. points out how peculiar and strange it is. This supports previous feelings of the courts lack of organization and makes me questions the courts validity. This does, as K. points out, account for why the initial hearing was located in his neighbors house. The court officials are also abusing their power by using the court ushers wife as they please. This made left me feeling disgusted and an overall disrespect towards the court system and the court officials. More is revealed of K.’s personality as well. His common belief of superiority is also seen in his attitude towards the usher’s wife. At first he really does not want anything else to do with her because he believes that she is below him and cannot help him, but once he finds out her connection with the examining magistrate he becomes attracted to her because he realizes how she could help him. This bothered me about K. and I feel like he is the type of person to use people to get his way. I also think that it would be a bad idea to use the usher’s wife to make the court jealous. He is still on trial and therefore it seems like that would only make them angry and rule against him.