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| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | Yossarian (whose first name is not revealed for some time) is an air force captain in Italy during World War II. When th... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Fresh from the hospital, Yossarian returns to active duty. The reader meets his squadron roommate, Orr, who has added st... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Like Chapter 2, this one opens with Yossarian's post-hospital return to the squadron; but this time the perspective is d... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Next up in Catch-22's parade of characters is Doc Daneeka, "whose idea of a good time was to sulk." He continuously worr... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Doc Daneeka is given even more space as this chapter opens. It turns out that his shifty Staten Island medical practice ... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Hungry Joe has had more tours of duty than any other air force hero, but he's a mess. He's cracking under the stress of ... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | McWatt is usually Yossarian's pilot. He is "the craziest combat man of them all probably, because he was perfectly sane ... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Not even Clevinger understands how Milo can make the profits he does, "and Clevinger knew everything." Clevinger is a ge... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | Major Major has had a tough life, and being made a major has only made it worse. There's his ridiculous name, for starte... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Clevinger is dead—vanished, along with his plane, on an otherwise uneventful mission. No trace of the plane has been fou... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | Captain Black is delighted that Yossarian's squadron is being sent to Bologna. They're really in for it now! Still bitte... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | The mission to Bologna keeps being postponed because of rain. This only makes things worse for the combat men in the squ... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | To his squadron, Major ___ de Coverley is a revered patriarchal figure—a handsome, imposing elderly man whose demeanor g... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | After days of anxious waiting, the mission to Bologna is finally taking place. Kid Sampson is the pilot of Yossarian's p... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | Although the second mission to Bologna is successful, the flight is nightmarish. Yossarian's plane comes under heavy fla... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | At the officers' nightclub in Rome, Yossarian meets up with a woman named Luciana. She lets him buy her dinner but refus... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | Yossarian is determined to stay in the military hospital forever rather than fly another mission. In the hospital people... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | In a flashback to Yossarian's cadet days, the reader learns how he manages to be hospitalized whenever he wants. Soldier... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | Colonel Cathcart is vain because he's already a full colonel and ashamed because he's not yet a general. Wondering if re... Read More |
| Chapter 20 | The chaplain leaves Cathcart's office dejectedly, disappointed in himself for not having been more forceful about the 60... Read More |
| Chapter 21 | Hearing Yossarian's name reminds Colonel Cathcart what a problem Yossarian is. Yossarian showed up naked to receive an a... Read More |
| Chapter 22 | At last the reader gets a much more detailed description of the accident that killed Snowden. On the mission to Av... Read More |
| Chapter 23 | In Rome, Nately finally tracks down the prostitute he's in love with. Nately, Yossarian, and a few of the other men go t... Read More |
| Chapter 24 | Milo's black-market business is thriving. Every European country has signed up for a share in the syndicate. He's even m... Read More |
| Chapter 25 | The chaplain is starting to worry that maybe he did sign Washington Irving's name to the letters Whitcomb told him about... Read More |
| Chapter 26 | Nately is miserable. He's in love with "his" whore, and she doesn't care about him at all. Aarfy jeers at him for not pi... Read More |
| Chapter 27 | When Yossarian makes a rude pass at Nurse Duckett, he's sent to the staff psychiatrist, Major Sanderson, who behaves lik... Read More |
| Chapter 28 | While Yossarian was in the hospital, Orr's plane was shot down. Orr managed to land it in the ocean so skillfully that n... Read More |
| Chapter 29 | Unfortunately for the men on Pianosa, Lieutenant Scheisskopf is sent overseas to work under General Peckem at Special Se... Read More |
| Chapter 30 | Dunbar doesn't care what kind of pattern his bombs make. He drops them well past the mountain village that was the targe... Read More |
| Chapter 31 | It's reported that Doc Daneeka was also killed when McWatt flew the plane into the mountain, but Doc was not actually in... Read More |
| Chapter 32 | When winter comes, Orr's stove keeps Yossarian's tent perfectly warm. Unfortunately, Yossarian can't appreciate the comf... Read More |
| Chapter 33 | In Rome Yossarian and four other airmen make a foray to rescue Nately's whore "from the middle-aged military big shots h... Read More |
| Chapter 34 | It's Thanksgiving Day. Milo outdoes himself with a "fantastically opulent" dinner and passes out unopened bottles of whi... Read More |
| Chapter 35 | Nately wants to keep flying missions so as to keep seeing his girlfriend. When Yossarian begs him to get himself grounde... Read More |
| Chapter 36 | News of "Nately's death almost killed the chaplain." When he gets the call telling him that 12 men have been killed, the... Read More |
| Chapter 37 | Scheisskopf, a man without talent or intelligence, has just been promoted to lieutenant general. All combat operations h... Read More |
| Chapter 38 | Yossarian now walks around backward so that no one can sneak up on him. He's announced that he's done flying combat miss... Read More |
| Chapter 39 | Milo flies Yossarian to Rome but scolds him all the way there. Yossarian nods absently, his mind running through images ... Read More |
| Chapter 40 | Colonel Korn tells Yossarian that they're sending him home because "there's nothing else we can risk doing to you at thi... Read More |
| Chapter 41 | Yossarian revives in the hospital. Two doctors are hovering over him, ready to make an incision. A colonel and a clerk a... Read More |
| Chapter 42 | Major Danby agrees that the deal Korn offered is odious, but he begs Yossarian to accept it rather than being court-mart... Read More |
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