The classic anti-war, anti-establishment, anti- (insert current debatable issue/action here) novel, Catch-22, follows the life of Yossarian, the main character, and his fellow Army Air Corps officers, stationed on an imaginary island off the coast of Italy, through a period during World War II. The book is classified under the genre of tragicomedy, yet some people see it as one extreme or the other of tragedy versus comedy. Both tragedy and comedy are very …showed first 75 words of 1701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1701 total…E. “Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity”, in Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature and New Views of the English and American Novel, Vol. IV, No. 3, Spring, 1971, pp.75-87. Muste, Abraham. Better to Die Laughing. Publisher and year unknown, pp. 17 & 27. Pennarun, Avery. Literary Humor: Ha versus Blah. <http://www.worldvisions.ca /~apenwarr/useless/oac/funny.html>, (17 September 1999). Regehr, John. John’s Book Pages (Catch-22). <http://regehr.org/books/reviews/catch22.html>, (2 February 2001).