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This paper discusses how the sentiments and attitudes expressed by Joseph Heller and his protagonist Yossarian in the novel "Catch-22" mirror many of the attitudes of popular culture in American society during the peak of the Vietnam War.

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"Few novels capture the aggressive military slaughter and conflicting pacifist opposition that surrounded the Vietnam War more than the events portrayed in Joseph Heller's depiction of the soldier Yossarian and the catch-22 dilemma of deciding whether to engage in combat or not in "Catch-22". In the ...s, as the Vietnam War reached its peak, people were rioting on the streets and across campuses in protest. Youth questioned the absurdity and illogic of the war as the draft consumed more and more of their fathers, brothers, uncles..."

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