Johnny Got His Gun 3

Joe realizes that he has a hole in his face that has yet to have healed. That night, he has a nightmare about a rat gnawing at his face. He has this dream because of something he saw when he was at war. Joe and some other soldiers found a Prussian soldier that had been dead for several weeks. They had found that a rat was chewing on the soldier’s face. The rat symbolizes Joe’s previous war experience. It shows that no one is really going to benefit from going to war. There are just going to be several deaths like the Prussian soldier that Joe stumbled upon. The rat shows that the people not fighting the war will benefit just like the rat that lives off of the flesh of the soldiers that died.