Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Complete Book Summary

What do you do when the system designed to protect you is the very thing trying to destroy you — and the only way to escape it is to prove you are sane, which the system uses as proof that you are not? In this complete summary of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, we break down one of the greatest, funniest, and most philosophically devastating novels ever written about war, bureaucracy, and the sublime madness of institutional power. We cover the circular logic of the catch-22 itself and why it is the perfect encapsulation of every system that exists to serve itself rather than the people inside it, the character of Yossarian and why his desire to simply stay alive makes him the most reasonable and therefore most dangerous person in the entire novel, the gallery of unforgettable supporting characters and what each one reveals about a different face of institutional absurdity, and why Heller's novel is not really about World War Two at all but about every bureaucratic system that has ever demanded human beings sacrifice their sanity, their dignity, and their lives for its own perpetuation.
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