The Castle - Chapter V: At the Chairman's and Chapter VI: Second Conversation with the Landlady Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Castle.

The Castle - Chapter V: At the Chairman's and Chapter VI: Second Conversation with the Landlady Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Castle.
This section contains 1,253 words
(approx. 4 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Castle Study Guide

Chapter V: At the Chairman's and Chapter VI: Second Conversation with the Landlady Summary

K. visits the village chairman, his superior according to the letter from Klamm. He is surprised that he is not more nervous about it. He expects to be able to obtain his wishes from the Castle, through the chairman, rather easily. He enters the chairman's house and finds him, bedridden with gout. His wife, Mizzi, busies herself around the room while the two discuss and says nothing until directly addressed. The chairman explains that there has been a bureaucratic error and that the the kingdom does not, in fact, need a land surveyor. He says that the bureaucracy makes so few mistakes that they tend not to check for them and that K.'s case—which he insists...

(read more from the Chapter V: At the Chairman's and Chapter VI: Second Conversation with the Landlady Summary)

This section contains 1,253 words
(approx. 4 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Castle Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
The Castle from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.