Maya's Reaction to Chapter 6

            In Chapter 6 of The Trial, you can tell where K. acquired the reactive tendencies he has been known to show from time to time. When K. reads the letter from Erna, he is calm and collected. His Uncle, who was apparently his legal guardian, is distraught. He is yelling and screaming, almost upset that K. is not having a stronger reaction. I believe that K. responded in the best way possible. The more upset he lets himself get about the entire situation, the more difficult it will be to cope with. 

            I thought it was a little ridiculous that K.’s Uncle insinuates that K. is guilty just because he is choosing to take what is going on in a level-headed manner. He has, what seems to me, a cursory amount of information. If he really knew what was going on he would not have had to ask as many questions as he did. He was right in saying, though, that these sorts of things do not just happen. Actually, you could say that about a lot of what goes on in The Trial. However, when K.’s Uncle says that, I began to think that maybe this could be a framing. The Uncle is right, this is the sort of thing that usually develops over a period of time and does not just spring up out of nowhere. Maybe there is something bigger going on that the reader should be worried about unearthing.  

             I agree with K. when he says that he should stay put rather than escaping to live in the country with his Uncle. Getting up and going like that will only make it look more suspicious on K.’s end, contrary to what his Uncle may believe. I think that the Uncle is kind of in K.’s face about the whole situation, but I believe that he is being genuine in his efforts of wanting to help. 

            All I got from the latter part of this chapter was that apparently, the legal system in K.’s country does allow him to hire a lawyer. But, even though he now has someone to defend him in court, he has inadvertently found himself in a love triangle. Maybe I understood it wrong, but the entire scene with the girl in lawyer’s office seemed like she essentially jumped him and tells him “You’re mine now”. So now, K. will only have legal defense as long as the lawyer, who appears to be ill, does not find out that this has happened.