12223. THE METAMORPHOSIS (FRANZ KAFKA) AND TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (VIRGINIA WOOLF). Studies the psychological relationships between children and parents in these two literary works. Both works feature insensitive fathers, ineffectual mothers, and repressed children. Also considers such factors as lack of communication, and feelings of hope versus hopelessness. Also examines the influence of the author's personal lives on the different outcomes of their stories (Kafka saw only the bad side of his father but Woolf was aware of her father's good side as well as his bad side). 13 pages, 55 footnotes, 8 bibliographic sources.