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The Trial - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "a novel entitled The Torments Grete Suffered at the Hands of Her Husband Hans" (57)
  - - - Aware of student and magistrate's escapades w/ his wife (66)
    - - Note: offices of officials are described like jail cells (68)
    - - Usher tells K. that they are "defendants"
        
        Man K. engages in conversation: unsure, anxious, apparently hurt by contact w/ K. (70-71)
        
        Usher: "Most defendants are so sensitive" (71)
- - - - K.: "Justice must remain at rest, otherwise the scales sway and no just judgment is possible" (145)
      - Change into "goddess of the Hunt" (146)
- - - - Significance of inquiries occurring on Sundays? Religious connection?
  - - - On reflection: "the room for the inquiry would have to be located off whatever stairway K. chanced to choose" (39)
  - - - All wearing "badges of various sizes and colors... they were all one group, the apparent parties on the left and right" (52)
    - - Generally quite surreal
    - - K. feels "as if his freedom were being threatened" (51)
- - - - K.'s impressions in this direction; spectators watching thru windows
- - - - K. on arrest: "simply nothing at all"
        
        K.'s sense that his arrest was due to his lack of "preparation" or not having his "wits about him" (23)
  - - - K.'s annoyance at her for "bringing disturbance and disarray to [the] day's end as well"? (26)
    - - "it would resemble an assault" (27)
    - - K. requests a little help w/ his trial (29)
    - - F.B. re: moving nightstand: "Well, if you need it for your performance, then go ahead and move [it]" (30)
      - K.: "You have to visualize the cast of characters" (31)
      - K.: "the most important character" (31)
        
        Enters "too deeply into his role," yells own name
        
        Loud banging on other side of wall in response
        
        K. offers to let F.B. tell F.G. he had "assaulted" her as cover for their being together (32)
        
        F.B.: "I can take full responsibility for what happens in my room and face anyone. I'm surprised you don't realize the insult to me implicit in your suggestions" (33)