【正文】 s prose in Catch22 is circular and repetitive, exemplifying in its form the structure of a Catch22. The seemingly random nonchronological structure to the novel is misleading Catch22 is actually highly structured, but it is a structure of free association where ideas run into one another through seemingly random connections. For example, Chapter 1 entitled The Texan ends with everybody but the CID man, who had caught cold from the fight。 he would not have a relationship with the women he did not love. In fact, Yossarian can be regarded as a hero to some extent. He was opposed to the corruption among soldiers. Even nowadays, very few people have the courage to do like that. Yossarian rejected to accept “catch22” and wanted to escape from the army, which were not only regarded as the demonstration of his cowardice but also reflected he was a hero. In conclusion, Yossarian is the representative of the mon in the society, whose destiny is dominated by others. The difference is Yossarian can not stand that his life is in other people’s hands.Everyone in this novel is very special. They represent the attitudes of this system. The canteen Minder Milo is a calculating entrepreneur. He symbolized the international monopoly. He engaged in speculation in the name of food purchasing. He even established a multinational corporation in this way. He smuggled goods through planes and even employed the enemy’s planes to transport for his pany. What was more ridiculous is that he bombed his own airfield when the enemyGermans offered him an extra 6%. In order to cut the costs, he let the solider eat chocolates with cotton inside. However, such a capitalist who ignored the soldiers’ lives, became an international celebrity. He even became the may of many European cities and the vice governor of Malta.Colonel Cathcart and Scheisskoph signify the bureaucratic group. Colonel Cathcart, who kept raising the number of missions, was a cold, ambitious mander. Just because he wanted to be the general and be appreciated by the senior officer, he kept raising the number of missions neglecting the lives of the soldiers. At last he tried to make a dirty deal with Yossarian to conceal his illegal behaviors. The second lieutenant Scheisskoph graduated from the reserve force. He was very happy for the war because that made him have the chance to wear the army uniform everyday and give the word of mand with dignified and clear voice to those soldiers who are going to die. For himself, because of the poor sight and fistula, he was not required to risk his life to participate in the war. In this fiction, Scheisskoph was obsessed with reviewing troops. He was mitted to training the soldiers with their own personalities into monotonous robot. It was his addiction that made him have the chance to be promoted and praised by his senior officers. He even won the title of “military genius” and became a general. It is obvious that the top level rulers aimed to destroy human’s personality and will. Only in this way, can they be in the ruling class forever without any resistance.The “soldier in white” was the most miserable character in this novel. He was encased from head to toe in plaster and gauze. He had two useless legs and arms. His legs were hoisted from thee hips and the two strange arms anchored up perpendicularly, all four limbs pinioned strangely in air. Sewn into the bandages over the insides of both elbows was zippered lip through which he was fed clear fluid from a jar. A silent zinc pipe rose from the cement on his groin and was coupled to a slim rubber hose that carried waste from his kidneys and dripped efficiently into a clear, stopped jar on the floor. When the jar on the floor was full, the jar feeding his elbow was empty and the two switched so that the staff could drip back to him. All others ever really saw of “the soldier in white” was a frayed black hole over his mouth. No one talked to him except the Texan. “The soldier in white” represent those whose soul and spirit have been destroyed by the rulers. The other pitiable man was . He was always afraid of being sent to pacific. Because in spite of telling others he was alive again and again, he was still regarded as dead in a plane accident. He became a dead alive person. Even his families for the sake of money thought that he was killed in the accident without any evidence.What is more, there were a lot of other unique characters, for example, the boring Texan who is the only one talking with the “soldier in white”. Dunbar, the ward mate of Yossarian, always told Yossarian some strange dreams and liked to shoot skeet to kill his time. Clevinger, who was lost in the clouds, was full of theories but was lack of experience. The wounded gunner Snowden, though never appeared was known by the readers through Yossarian’s memory. Every time when Yossarian recalled his death, the readers are deeply affected. He lay dying in the tail of Yossarian’s plane and at last revealed his terrifying secret. Major Majormajor, whose tragedy in life is that he resembles Henry Fonda and Major_de Coverley, whose face was so forbidding and no one has ever dared to ask his first name.
The Theme of this NovelThe main theme is to expose the expose the absolute power of bureaucratism. The most frightening and miserable thing in Catch22 is that Yossarian and his colleagues’ lives were not decided by themselves in danger but by those savage and terrifying bureaucrats. Catch22 is the typical symbol of bureaucratism. No novel before or since has matched Catch22’s intensity and brilliance in depicting the brutal insanity of war. Heller satirizes military bureaucracy with bitter, sting humor, all the while telling the darkly ic story of Yossarian, a bombardier who refused to die. According to the Catch22, the soldiers must risk their lives to obey the orders in spite of knowing the goal was meaningless or dangerous. At the end of this novel, the soldiers were still order