Why does the rat come to visit Joe? What does it represent?
The rat comes to visit Joe while he is in the battlefield. Joe is wounded on his side and he has a small hole there because he was injured. The rat comes and eats away his side where he is hurt. Because Joe doesn't have any arms or legs he can't do anything about it and this is why the rat stuck in his mind for a long time. Joe is completely helpless and all he can do is think about this rat and that it has to go away by itself. To Joe, the rat represents the life that he had in the past. The rat also represented memories that Joe had in the battlefield. Because this happened while Joe was sleeping and that when he later woke up he was with a nurse in a hospital he doesn't quite know when he is in reality and when he is actually alive. Joe basically doesn't even know if he is sleeping or living. He has a very bad sense of reality and the whole rat situation made everything worse for him.
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