Joseph K.

Josef K. is the main character in Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial. He is a "senior accountant at a large bank" (First Hearing, 33%), and turns 30 years old at the beginning of the story (Arrest, 18%). Apparently, K. grew up with his uncle Karl or Albert, because K. "as his former ward, was under a particular obligation to him" (His Uncle Leni, 0%). K’s father is dead. 

K. does not seem to have a close relationship with his mother; she appears in the fragment "Going To See His Mother". There, K. notes that it is now already "the third year since he had last seen her". Actually, K. had made her a promise to "spend every birthday with her", which he has now broken for the second time. 

K. lives in a room with the landlady Frau. Grubach, but has almost no contact with the other flatmates, since he doesn't "bother much with the boarding-house" (B’s Friend, 60%), as Fräulein Montag remarks in the fragment "B.’s Friend". K’s only long conversation seems to be the one he has with the tenant Fräulein Bürstner on the day of the arrest (chapter "A Conversation with Frau Grubach Then Fräulein Bürstner"), but he will not talk to her again. K. has only a few other social contacts. He goes "once a week to a girl called Elsa" (A conversation with Frau Grubach, 0%). She is K’s mistress, and works "serving in a wine-bar" (A conversation, 0%).

In addition, K. likes to go "for a short walk after work by himself or with friends"(A conversation, 0%) and then "to an inn" (A conversation, 0%). In the fragment...