Interpreting the meaning of "Catch-22" in his book, "Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers From Hemingway to Mailer," the critic Alfred Kazin said that Heller's novel "is Some critics found a condemnation of capitalistic practices in the character of Milo Minderbinder, a money-grubbing former mess-hall officer whose pursuit In his novel, Heller went beyond a simple anti-military stance. "rational fear in the face of clear and present danger" obviously is sane and must continue to fly.
The catch is that one must ask to be excused. Yossarian discovers that, in the military rule book, anyone who is declared insane must be excused from flying death-defying missions. To avoid flying more missions, Yossarian concocts a mysterious liver ailment, sabotages his plane and tries to get himself declared
His ambitious, mean-spirited commanding officers are more dangerous than the Germans. The novel is about a bombardier named John Yossarian, a mock-Assyrian who believes "Catch-22" was based on Heller's experiences as a bombardier with the 12th Air Force in the Mediterranean in World War II. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Valerie, said. Joseph Heller during a 1998 interview in Chicago.
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