What are the themes in The Green Mile?
The book and movie highlight the themes of death, the death penalty, incarceration, and racism during the time period of the Great Depression, and relate these themes back in a narrative that seems to hold comparable metaphorical significance with the story of Jesus Christ.
What does the Green Mile represent?
The Green Mile is symbolic of the inmates’ inevitable walk toward death, as they all must face the electric chair.
What is the conflict of the green mile?
(SPOILERS) I think the primary conflict is to do with the power to give and end life. The residents of the Green Mile have exercised the power to end life, and the state is exercising its power to end their lives. John Coffey has the power to give life, and yet he is to be executed.
What does The Green Mile represent?
The Green Mile is symbolic of the inmates’ inevitable walk toward death, as they all must face the electric chair.
