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Catch-22 (logic) A flowchart showing Joseph Heller's original Catch-22. A catch-22 is a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or limitations. [1] The term was coined by Joseph Heller, who used it in his 1961 novel Catch-22.
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It is his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, [3] it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate ...
List of Catch-22 characters The following is a list of characters in the 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Major Major Major Major Major Major Major Major is a fictional character in Joseph Heller 's 1961 novel Catch-22. He was named "Major Major Major" by his father, as a joke – passing up such lesser possibilities as "Drum Major, Minor Major, Sergeant Major, or C Sharp Major". [1] Once he joined the army during World War II, he was quickly promoted to the rank of Major due to "an I.B.M. machine ...
Milo Minderbinder First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller 's 1961 novel, Catch-22. As the mess officer of Yossarian 's squadron, Minderbinder is an entrepreneur during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional businessmen" in American literature. [1] The Minderbinder character is a "bittersweet parody" of the American dream, both a "prophet of ...
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Orr (Catch-22) Orr (. Catch-22. ) Lieutenant Orr[1] is a fictional character in the classic 1961 novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Orr is a World War II bomber pilot who shares a tent with his good friend, the protagonist of the novel, Yossarian. Described as "a warm-hearted, simple-minded gnome," Orr is generally considered crazy.
"It's this Catch-22," said Patricia Quinn, an atmospheric chemist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), speaking about cleaning up sulphur pollution globally.