Too Good To Die

In the story Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Yossarian, the protagonist, has a superior complex that has become his purpose to avoid any chances of involvement in the war. He believes that everyone he meets, including strangers, have a tendency to kill him because he is a paragon; Yossarian is "Assyrian" and "had a sound mind in a pure body", therefore he also thinks he is hated by the jealousy of others. Yossarian is not lazy but he thinks highly of himself that in every mission he is given, accomplishment was not significant to him because his goal is "to live forever or die in attempt" ( p 29).
Yossarian's character has a very likable charm that doesn't appeal to a lot of the other characters, however I find it very amusing as it adds to the humor in the story.  For example, Yossarian uses a lot redundancy when conversing with others. For example, when he was stationed at the hospital, pretending to be sick, he would flatter the naive champlain in an attempt to elongate his stay. The champlain and Yossarian have very awkward conversations that they would reply to one another with the same previous sentence. In another example, at camp, whenever his comrades call him paranoid, he would retaliate back by repeating those statements, and the questions would result into unnecessary nonsensicalities. This reflects the wit Yossarian has, behind his god-like complex. What intrigues me most however is that with  inconsideration and his purpose to survive independently, I wonder what his purpose was when he joined the army. Also, I wonder what other preposterous and cheating schemes he would make to abstain from his call of duty.  I predict that I as I continue reading, probably his reasons would slowly begin to make sense.