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Joseph Heller

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If one doesn't want to fly missions, they are considered sane, but because they're sane, they have to fly missions.

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"But Yossarian still didn’t understand how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents" (69).

" But the Germans are also members in good standing of the syndicate, and it's my job to protect their rights as shareholders. Maybe they did start the war, and maybe they are killing millions of people, but they pay their bills a lot more promptly than some allies of ours I could name. Don't you understand that I have to respect the sanctity of my contract with Germany? Can't you see it from my point of view? " (263)

" 'It's generally known that you've flown only two missions. And that one of those occurred when Aarfy accidentally flew you over enemy territory while navigating you to Naples for a black-market water cooler' " (381).

Represents: Greed

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"What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness" (209).

" 'Goodbye, Yossarian,' the chaplain called. 'And good luck. I'll stay here and persevere, and we'll meet again when the fighting stops.' " (470).

“The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvelous" (373).

Represents: Good Intentions

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"Doc Daneeka was drafted and shipped to Pianosa as a flying surgeon, even though he was terrified of flying "(29).

"...regulations do say you have to obey every order. Thats the catch. Even if the colonel was disobeying the Twenty-seventh Air Force order by making you fly more missions, you'd still have to fly them or else you'd be guilty of disobeying an order of his" (58).

Represents: Defeat

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"When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy" (461).

'The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on" (129).

"From now on I'm thinking only of me" (461).

"The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them" (418).

Represents: Joseph Heller's checked impulses

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Desertion - troops flew the missions to be released from their duties, only to hear the Major say that they had to fly more missions every time, leading troops to make up excuses to go to the hospital so they didn't have to endure the
Corruption - Major Major Major Major was promoted to major on his first day on the job due to a computer malfunction and Commander Cathcart always raises the amount of missions whenever troops check out.

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"Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful, slipshod, unhappy man of thirty-six who lumbered when he walked and wanted to be a general. He was dashing and dejected, poised and chagrined" (187).

"They were in a race and knew it, because they knew from bitter experience that
Colonel Cathcart might raise the number of missions again at any time" (27)

"You mustn't blame Colonel Cathcart for any delay with the orders" (102).

"Colonel Cathcart wants to be a general and I want to be a colonel, and that's why we have to send you home.' 'Why does he want to be a general?' 'Why? For the same reason that I want to be a colonel. What else have we got to do?" (425)

Represents: Corruption