How Does Heller Use Informal Language In Catch 22

In the novel, Catch 22, by Joseph Heller there were many informal languages to portray each character’s interactions between one another. Most of the conversations seems to be somewhat brief and short because the author is probably trying to make the story a little bit more interesting and surprising for the reader. Although as the story progresses, Heller switches the tone and sentence structures from informal to a formal tone.

During the beginning of the novel, Heller uses many informal languages to express the character’s feelings about a certain situation. In fact, the characters had a very simple conversation with one another. The reason why Heller is probably trying to keep the conversations brief between the characters because he

"I hate that son of a b--ch," Yossarian growled.” (25)

Because of Heller’s use of profanity to describe the opinions of the soldiers on one another, the reader can tell that it is ironic where the narration of Appleby was positive and the reader’s first impression of Appleby is probably a decent person, then it ends off with Yossarian having hatred for Appleby. Throught Heller’s novel, as mentioned before, he uses complex sentences during his narration because he still wants to keep the reader thinking and interested whereas the dialogues are very simple and vague which is where the reader doesn’t get that much of help because it still keeps them wondering even more.

Catch 22 is a satirical novel because throughout the novel, it was either the commander that was running into issues or the soldiers always fear of every war being their last moment to live. Some of the quotes that are going to be provided will show a lot of ironic situations where it won’t necessarily make the reader laugh, but it does use mocking and sarcasm to address the full thoughts of the characters within