But his mother was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him the sight of this and all its noise.
pero el castigo de la madre no se hizo esperar, porque apenas había notado la hermana por la tarde el cambio en la habitación de Gregorio, cuando, herida en lo más profundo de sus sentimientos, corrió al cuarto de estar y, a pesar de que la madre suplicaba con las manos levantadas, rompió en un mar de lágrimas, que los padres – el padre se despertó sobresaltado en su silla –, al principio, observaban asombrados y sin poder hacer nada, hasta que, también ellos, comenzaron a sentirse conmovidos; el padre, a su derecha, reprochaba a la madre que no hubiese dejado al cuidado de la hermana la limpieza de la habitación de Gregorio, a su izquierda, decía a gritos a la hermana que nunca más volvería a limpiar la habitación de Gregorio; mientras que la madre intentaba llevar al dormitorio al padre, que no podía más de irritación, la hermana, sacudida por los sollozos, golpeaba la mesa con sus pequeños puños, y Gregorio silbaba de pura rabia porque a nadie se le ocurría cerrar la puerta para ahorrarle este espectáculo y este ruido.