Catch-22 characters
Albert Taylor Tappman, the anabaptist chaplain, is a kind, timid, sensitive, shy, quiet and gentle person. He is very diffident and unconfident. Even his atheist assistant, Corporal Whitcomb, does not obey him at all. Whitcomb only makes fun of him. The Chaplain feels lonely and depressed around...
First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a true master of destinies on the island. This mess officer creates a syndicate and declares all the pilots to be its members. Although he is not in a hurry to share the profit. Strongly determined to put the war on a commercial basis, he gets the money from...
He is the protagonist of the novel. At first, he appears as a bored joker, who censors the letters of soldiers and signs as Washington Irving, or as Irving Washington sometimes. Then we learn that he starts to be afraid of the flights and tries to get an exemption from combat sorties by all...
Colonel Cathcart is a pronounced antagonist of the novel. He is fulfilled with numerous contradictions. Cathcart is very conceited, as he is already a colonel and a combat commander at his age. At the same time, he feels depressed that at the age of 36 he is only a colonel. As we can see, all he...
Doctor Daneeka, Yossarian’s friend, is a physician of the squadron. He is the one who explains the point of the Catch-22 to Yossarian. He is afraid of flights, so Yossarian helps him to fake the length of the flight hours. Due to that, Doc Daneeka is considered dead, since he was on the list...