![]() ![]() This article tries to answer three key questions: What is Catch-22? What does it say? What does it mean? Along the way, it discusses how the most famous Catch-22, the one that keeps both sane and insane airmen flying combat missions, relies on contrivances, contains loopholes and exceptions, has a modified version, and is ultimately not “the best catch there is.” It concludes that the Catch-22s in Catch-22 might be rational after all. This article is the first to discuss the Catch-22s in both Catch-22 and Closing Time, as far as can be determined. The sequel to Catch-22 , Closing Time, presents four Catch-22s, two of them new. The novel presents seven explicit applications or scenarios illustrating Catch-22, and six implicit applications or scenarios. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the. This article examines Catch-22 as a lawyer would, ultimately recognizing that Joseph Heller was referring to a social law, not a legal one. A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. A Lawyer Looks at Catch-22: The Best Catch There Is Is Not Much of a Catchīecause the novel Catch-22 states variously that Catch-22 is a law, regulation, and rule, a legal analysis of Catch-22 is appropriate. ![]()
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