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Why does Art Spiegelman use mice instead of people to portray the characters in the story? What do the mice represent?
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Spiegelman chose to write Maus as an animal allegory, His use of mice to portray the Jewish chararcters in the story is based on stereotypical traits, which are anti-Semetic in origin..... namely those of vermin.
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