Foreshadowing

In Franz Kafka's The Trial, the character seems to be growing weary of the situation.  K. was been on trial for several months now, but still seems to have not made any progress.  He doesn't seem to be able to help his case in any way.  Furthermore, there is little he actually knows about the court system.  They are kept very secretive and even people in the system are sometimes unaware of whose higher up.  He constantly finds himself unable to focus on anything but the trial.  K. encounters a man at his lawyer's office, and discussing their trial the man says "Probably, my trial's been going on much longer than that, it started soon after the death of my wife, and that's been more than five and a half years now," (Kafka, 124).  This quote foreshadows K.'s life for the next couple of years.  He will be bound to his trial, for which he cannot help, waiting and obsessing until they eventually decide what to do.  It appears that he will lose everything in his life that makes him happy, and instead only choose to focus on the trial for which he still does not know the reason.