In my opinion a life struggle that people go through in life is with finace issues. Making sure they can afford things and be happy at the same time. Like with Gregor there family had finical issues so he had to work very hard to get him and his family out of debt.
This struggle is mental, emotional and phyiscal because mentally all a person his thinking about is working making my family happy and doing my all so they can be happy. Emotionally there sad that there going through had times and its all on them to make it work and physically there probably tired and weak from doing so much work to bring money to the table so there family can eat and be happy.
Gregor experinced this struggle as a human. His familyhad finical issues so gregor had to work hard for his family so they can live better lives and be out of debt. Also being the only person in his family that could work or even wanted to work so all the pressure was on him.
To me gregors father experiences this struggle as will being the man of the house an not able to w0rk or wanting to knowning that there family is in debt and has to money to his son has to step up and help them out when it can be the both of them wroking together and would probably be way more easier oon gregor if his father was helping him, but when gregor turns into a cockroach then his father steps up and starts working.
Yes to me someone can survive this struggle by working hard for what they want an what they need. I think if a person doesn't like what they have then its only in there hands to fix it because nothing is handed to you. You always have to work for what you want.