In his diaries, Kafka wrote that the friend is the strongest connection between Georg and his father, for it is through this link that his father is able to reassert himself as paterfamilias and his son's enemy and that Georg is able to submissively accept him as such.
У своїх щоденниках Кафка писав, що друг-це найсильніший зв'язок між Георгом і його батьком, бо саме через цю ланку батько здатний утвердити себе як Pater familias і ворога свого сина і що Георг здатний смиренно прийняти його як такого.