A Very Kafkaesque Situation

Franz Kafka has a very well known style of writing.  Most of his characters have some event happen that complicates their lives.  They become obsessed with it, and eventual their entire lives revolve around it until their inevitable death.  The Trial is no different than his other books.  K. finds himself on trial, which seems to not be a very big deal.  However, K. becomes obsessed with it, and toward the later parts of the story finds he can't focus on anything else.  He has already lost his normal life by allowing thoughts about his trial to completely consume him.  "Every hour that he could not be in the office was a cause of concern for him, he was no longer able to make use of his time in the office anything like as well as he had previously..." (Kafka, 143).  K. actually appears to have gone insane.  The level-headed, calculating, smooth-talking man that was introduced at the beginning of the book has now turned into a maniac.  He only thinks of the trial and what he should be doing instead of thinking about the trial.  He is no longer able to have normal conversations, and instead is rather curt with people with whom he is familiar.  This entity in his life has now become completely central, and it has paralyzed him to all other tasks and relationships.