Catch 22, Joseph Heller
10/24/06
Yosarian wasn’t crazy, it was everyone else. I suppose you are either someone who agrees, or you’re not. The Catch 22 is of course the military clause that won’t let you go home from the war because you’re crazy, but won’t allow you to stay either. And then you have all the folks working the military system simply because it is workable.
The satire that is Catch 22’s take on the military is as true as the day it was written, it also taps into the frustration of “WHY?” that anyone who has every been deployed will understand, at times heartbreaking, but ever, unexplainably, military.
