A country doctor

A Country Devastation People would never accept the way the doctor in Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor" performs. The Doctor acts completely unlike a genuine doctor. The whole story is based on a situation that is completely unlike that of an authentic house call made by a real life country doctor. A doctor would never leave one of his employees after being injured, a doctor would not go to tend to a patient and not …

…is simply a foolish old man that pretends to be something that he is not. The pretending seems to only be in his head though, because he is nothing at all like a real doctor to those who observe his behavior. Kafka portrays a doctor with little more realistic content than a man waking up to be a bug or a land surveyor called to duty that never goes to the place of his job.