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Life is a chance, and the novel CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller shows over and over again just how much of a dice roll it is. “The world has no meaning but is simply there; man is a creature who seeks meaning. The relationship between man and his world is therefore absurd; human action having no intrinsic value is ultimately futile,” states literary critic Kennard. The novel is full of bizarre relationships, hidden meanings, and no-win situations which Heller sets up to illustrate the absolute pointlessness in the way most of the characters are living their lives. This is a story about chaos and all the difficult predicaments and outcomes that life presents. It makes the reader question his/her own life situations and dramatically brings readers to their own self questioning about - “why am I doing this and for whom?” The tale awakens something in the reader, it is as simple as that. Through Heller’s zany characters and their own peculiar situations and journeys, the reader has no choice be to rethink their own ideas about life in general. Most importantly, the novel illustrates how little control a person has over his/her own life and that both those who take control and those that don’t eventually wind up with what they
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In the entire novel, Snowden represents the worst of what can happen –everyone’s worst nightmare. Yossarian’s continual flashbacks reveal how affected he was by the death of this fellow airman. Interestingly enough however, details of Snowden’s death are not revealed until a late chapter in the book. Yet, there are those continual flashbacks and references as to how the death affected all the men in the unit. Robert Merrill refers to Snowden’s death:
“Major Major, ‘born too late and too mediocre’, discovers that he is being utterely taken over by ‘prolix bulletins’, and so he ‘grew despondent’. One day he signed Washington Irving’s name to a document, an act of rebellion which functioned as catharsis: henceforth he exploits as a counter-strategy the names of other famous writers… in order to fight back.” (Walsh).
Yossarian realizes that his life can quickly be taken away. He is especially frightened after he sees the death of Snowden, one of the men assigned to his plane.
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