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A very brief synopsis of my Willy Wonka as capricious God metaphor:
Each of the kids represents one or more of the seven deadly sins. Augustus is obviously gluttony, Veruca Salt is greed and vanity ("What a lovely mink coat", "I have three more like it at home") and maybe a little bit of wrath/anger (during the I Want It Now song), Mike TV is sloth, Violet is pride (outdoing her friend in gum chewing), and the whole world, including the kids and their families, lust after the golden tickets.
The tickets represent, basically, the keys to the gates of heaven. Everybody in the world wants in, but only Wonka/God has the power to let them in.
Each of the kids then suffers a fall from grace after they succumb to temptation. (Though to fair to Augustus, Wonka did tell them that everything they see will be edible, so Augustus, whose English is questionable anyway, didn't know he was sinning before falling into the river).
Bringing us to Charlie and Grandpa Joe. Grandpa Joe basically plays the role of the snake, acting to tempt Charlie. When he brings home a loaf of bread on his first payday, his mother asks where he got it, and Grandpa Joe says "Who cares where he go it, the point is he got it!" So GJ, after 20 years of having his bed pan emptied by Charlie's mother, finally gets out of bed and immediately starts dancing around.
GJ continues acting as tempter. It was he who tempts Charlie to steal Fizzy Lifting Drink, and it was he who tries to tempt Charlie into keeping the Everlasting Gobstopper to sell to Slugworth. Finally, Charlie resists temptation and redeems himself to Wonka and is given the keys to heaven.
So, anyway, that's the short version. Wonka is God, and Grandpa Joe is the servant of the devil. And you thought it was just about candy.