Catch 22
Criticisms
Robert Merrill
Walter McDonald
American Rebel
Yossarian faces moral
dilemmas
Jean Kennard
More juxtaposition
Characterization
Absurdity of war theme
Louis Hasley
War juxtaposed by humor
Daniel Green
Examples of Humor
Style
Juxtaposition
Shows how horrid war is
Frankness
Tells gruesome statements
like they are nothing
Ridiculously absurd
p. 398-405: really weird and funny reasoning
Examples
See bookmarks on phone for lots of examples
p. 490 "If nothing else, that episode...should teach you the evil of sexual immorality." "It teaches me the evil of candy."
Lots of irony
No sense of time whatsoever
References same
events several times
Point in time varies,
changing from early
war to late war
Stream of Conciousness
Only in certain chapters,
but flies back and forth
between tangentially
related subjects
Themes
Dehumanization
Scenes of death
Soldier in white
Yossarian with every girl ever
Power of Language
Loyalty Oaths
Catch 22 idea itself
Yossarian deletes words
from letters
Absurdity of War
Humor
Completely crazy situations
Bombing for Photographs
Soldier in White
Serious parts where people die
Characters
Major de Coverly
"Let them have eat"
Chaplain
Religion being used for personal
gain
Losing his religion
Snowden
Dies gruesomely, makes
Yossarian learn about
human existence
Doc Daneeka
Explains Catch 22 to
Yossarian
Milo Minderbinder
Eventually strikes deal
with Germans to bomb
his own unit
Sells tons of things
Scheisskopf
Funny name
Major Major Major Major
Only sees people when he
isn't in his office
Awkward
Yossarian
Weird "hero," doesn't
want to die for others
Believes God wouldn't
create suffering
Main character
