... Bureaucracy In his novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller captures the hypocrisy of freedom in the army. All aspects of the lives and deaths of the men in Yossarian's squadron are controlled by the bureaucracy, which refuses ... Yossarian has flown the required number of combat missions, Colonel Cathcart, a bureaucrat, raises the number just because he has the authority to do so. The main characteristic of a bureaucrat in Catch-22 is the ability to defy logic. Doc Daneeka best represents this ability when he refuses to ground Yossarian for insanity, since Yossarian's plea to be grounded proves ...

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