Which passage indicates that Gregor’s health and faculties are starting to decline? ‘You must try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor.’ But with the passing of time Gregor also came to understand everything more precisely. Actually from day to day he perceived things with less and less clarity, even those a short distance away: the hospital across the street, the all too frequent sight of which he had previously cursed, was not visible at all any more. In any case, no one paid him any attention.