"The Metamorphosis" "Helbling's Story" and "Bartleby the Scrivener"

“Bartleby the Scrivener,” “The Metamorphosis,” and “Helbling’s Story” all appeared very similar to me after I read them. They all centered on seemingly ordinary people. Helbling calls himself ordinary. Gregor strangely was never surprised by his condition and took it as normal. Bartleby’s actions are strange, but there doesn’t seem to be anything completely out of the ordinary about them. But after Helbling proclaims he is ordinary and just like everyone else, he starts to explain how he is different from everyone else. He says he is a dreamer and would much rather not work, or as Bartleby would say, he would “prefer not to.” At the end of their stories both Bartleby and Gregor die, and Hebling says that he would rather be alone. Is this making some sort of statement on society? There seems to be a theme of not fitting in with society. I also wonder why Gregor turned into a bug and didn’t even seem alarmed at all by it.