Grete Samsa was playing the violin when she heard it. The sound was clearly coming from Gregor's room which deeply disturbed her. Her first thought was that it had clumsily dropped something on the floor, but then she recalled that all the furniture had been removed. Gregor Samsa lay on the floor of his room, staring upwards, unable to get back up. What prevented this was his heavy outer shell and the excruciating pain on …showed first 75 words of 1247 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1247 total…final situation worst. If the last paragraph where the family goes on the train ride in the city had been written with this alternate ending, Gregor would not have been mentioned even once. So basically this ending terminates all hope and wonder of what could have been, it was what is was and nothing else because there is no room for possibility as Gregor's death is met a few seconds after his understanding of reality.