Catch 22

Heller wrote this book to satirize institutions and how these institutions do not service the constitutions of which it is composed, but they undermine them. The American citizens which fought for the United States during World War Two showed the values within current America. On the home front, in the newspapers, and through statistics, the United States had been victorious in Europe and US soldiers were seen as defenders of American culture and values. Thousands …

…of the market available during the war. Each man did not correspond with the values in the United States for warfare. Americans were to be patriotic and loyal to their country. They were to put their own interests aside and take on the responsibility of protecting their way of life. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 showed the possibilities that World War Two saw a decline in the traditional American set of morals and values upheld during wartime.