• Blog – Why does the rat come to visit Joe? What does it represent?
Joe once again slips into a sleep. This time he has the memory of the rat. He dreams that the rat crawls over him and begins to eat out of his wound. Joe is having this memory because when he was in war, he and his fellow soldier had seen a Prussian soldier whose dead body was being eaten by rats. He comes to a conclusion that people in war should worry for about rats then their real enemy. Joe knows that he cannot do anything to stop this rat from eating his wound; it will return night and night again to feed from it. The rat is a symbol of war. This is because that Joe thinks that a rat is a soldier’s true enemy, instead of the actual people. Joe sees the rat as a scavenger who benefits from others death.
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