Essay Archive - The Effects of Catch 22
The Effects of Catch 22
In literature sometimes a character can be helped or hindered by the
economic, social, or political conditions of the day. In the novel Catch 22 by
Joseph Heller, the character Doc Daneeka illustrates this idea perfectly because
the conditions surrounding him greatly hindered him. Catch 22 takes place during
WWII on an island named Pianosa that is close to Italy. Doc Daneeka is adversely
affected by the war in the end because when it began he was making a profit from
it as other doctors had been drafted, but then his d....
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