Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Chapter 41 Quotes. Related Characters: Clevinger , Snowden. Related Themes: War and Bureaucracy. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. But he is troubled by the fact that the old man reminds him of his father.
When Nately finally does get to sleep with his whore the next morning, her little sister almost immediately interrupts them. Milo contracts with the Americans to bomb the Germans and with the Germans to shoot down American planes. He gives Yossarian some chocolate-covered cotton and tries to convince him it is really candy.
Yossarian tells Milo to ask the government to buy his cotton, and Milo is struck by the intelligence of the idea. The chaplain is troubled that no one seems to treat him as a regular human being and everyone is uncomfortable in his presence. Furthermore, he is intimidated by the soldiers and generally ineffectual as a religious leader. The naked man was, of course, Yossarian.
He dreams of his wife and children dying horribly in his absence. Yossarian crawls to Snowden and tries to administer morphine, but there is none in the first-aid kit. In a soft, frail, childlike voice, the gunner repeats, "I'm cold. I'm cold. Startled, Yossarian realizes that Snowden is wounded inside his flak suit. As Yossarian opens the gunner's suit, Snowden's insides slither to the floor: "liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch.
Throughout this chapter, Yossarian reflects on his real pals in the war — not Colonel Korn or Colonel Cathcart but young men who, like, Yossarian, came to battle as innocent boys but were born to a horrible understanding.
Most of them are dead. They haunt his memory, none more than Snowden. In war, good young men die, and Yossarian has come to the painful realization that he can not change that.
There is, however, one thing that he can do. Previous Chapter The playful moment veers into shocking tragedy as Kid Sampson is cut in half, and McWatt elects to fly the plane into a mountain. Scheisskopf is written to have a more personal animosity toward Yossarian, not just because of a formation-related incident with Clevinger at the beginning of the story but because he knows that Yossarian has slept with his wife.
Milo does not face any type of punishment for bombing his own men as part of a business deal, and the miniseries presents him as an unstoppable enterprise, an embodiment of the idea that capitalism is stronger than enemy lines.
Certainly not all could be included, but the excising or minimizing of some characters does show which routes Michod and Davies wanted to explore with the miniseries. The miniseries : The miniseries gives most of its character attention to Yossarian and Milo, though it does fit in some screentime to the likes of Major Major Major Major and Nately.
The book : Like the other men, Yossarian fraternizes with the women on base and in Rome, often falling for them instantly. He develops the closest thing to a relationship with Nurse Duckett, after getting handsy with her in a hospital. The miniseries : Nurse Duckett is framed more as a non-romantic sounding board for Yossarian, especially as he considers her one of the few sane people on the base.
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