Catch 22 Yossarian Changes

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In Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 Yossarian constantly does irrational things and breaks the rules, in a search to find out who he is, and by looking into Yossarians motivations Heller is ultimately able to represent how the difficult obstacles in life cause us to grow our ideas and emotionally. Yossarian changes throughout the story through traumatic experiences. At the beginning of the book, Yossarian believes he can elude, or delay death by staying in the hospital. However, throughout the story, Yossarian slowly comes to terms with reality. The main cause of the profound change in Yossarian is the death of Snowden. When on a mission Dobbs takes control of the plane, and then he crashes the plane. When the plane went down Dobbs was uninjured, but Snowden “[layed] on the floor wounded and freezing to death in a yellow splash …show more content…

And what difference does that make”(19). Yossrian is questioning the war itself, asking why people are shooting at him if he hasn't done anything to them and also what war does to people physically, and mentally. Yossarian describes the effect war takes on people physically, they die, but Yossarian is an example of the effect war takes on people mentally who are constantly surrounded by death. Yossarian doesn't believe that war is beneficial to anybody if people are just dying for something they don't believe in. Yossarians are asking questions, calling out the contradictions the people in power are making. Questioning the basis of the whole war. By the end of the story, Yossarian is surrounded by death, injustice, and greed. With mostly all of his close friends dead, surrounded by generals who treated the soldiers like pawns, and given an option to join the generals betraying everything he believed in, taking the easy way out, or sticking to his beliefs and deserting the army. Yossrian chose to take the difficult path and run. Before Yossarian, he tells the generals how he feels” When I look up, I see people cashing

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