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Kid Sampson
One of Yossarian's pilots. Eventually he is killed by McWatt in a macabre accident. |
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Lieutenant Scheisskopf
Eventually General Scheisskopf, he begins as the parade-crazy assistant with the promiscuous wife. |
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Soldier in White
The wholly bandaged body in the hospital asserted to be Lieutenant Schmulker. |
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Snowden
A squadron gunner who dies in Yossarian's arms as Yossarian patches the wrong wound. His "secret" haunts Yossarian till nearly the end. |
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Chaplain Tappman
The kindly chaplain who befriends Yossarian. He is full of doubts and fears, but overcomes them in the end. |
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Wes
The other of the two medics working under Doc Daneeka. |
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Corporal Whitcomb
The chaplain's antagonistic and atheistic assistant who starts the letter of condolence game and is responsible for the CID investigation of the chaplain. |
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ex-PFC Wintergreen
The continually promoted and then busted mail clerk at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters who virtually runs the 27th by intercepting messages and forging answers. |
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Yossarian
Yossarian receives most of the attention of the novel, both as a captain in the squadron, a bombardier on the flights, and a culprit/victim of catch-22. |
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Style and Structure in Catch-22 |
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To the reader who regards style as mere adornment and structure as mere form, Catch-22 must appear a frustratingly jumbled series of disconnected episodes. The novel is written, however, within the viewpoint that style and structure limit and condition what is and what can be said. |
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