Why does the rat come to visit Joe? What does it represent?
The rat comes to visit Joe in one of Joe's dreams. In the dream the rat is eating away at his body. Joe remembers a Prussian solider who the rat was chewing away at. Even though the rat was eating away at a solider that wasn't one of there own, they were willing to help him. I think that this represents that Joe needs some one to come help him. He can't see, is deaf and has no arms. I believe that he wants to die but doesn't understand why he won't and he sees other people dying. Joe is suffering way more than all the other people who have died. I think that Joe wants the rat to actually being eating away at him so that he can stop the pain that he is in and finally die to relive all the suffering he has gone through with his body. Joe wants to gain something because he is sick of trying living. He doesn't to be keep alive with the condition that he is in.
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