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Quote #7
All Colonel Cathcart knew about his house in the hills was that he had such a house and hated it. He was never so bored as when spending there the two or three days every other week necessary to sustain the illusion that his damp and drafty stone farmhouse in the hills was a golden palace of carnal delights. Officers' clubs everywhere pulsated with blurred but knowing accounts of lavish, hushed-up drinking and sex orgies there and of secret, intimate nights of ecstasy with the most beautiful, the most tantalizing, the most readily aroused and most easily satisfied Italian courtesans, film actresses, models and countesses. No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. (21.8)
Colonel Cathcart is willing to deceive his men into thinking he receives pleasure when he doesn't to keep up an appearance of superior authority and power over the enlisted men. It is ironic that Colonel Cathcart does not hold such parties as described, especially when he has the perfect venue for it.
Quote #8
"Why isn't he wearing clothes?" General Dreedle demanded…
"Why isn't he wearing clothes?" Colonel Korn demanded of Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren.
"A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him," Captain Wren replied. "He swears he's never going to wear a uniform again."
"A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him," Captain Korn (sic) reported directly to General Dreedle. "His uniform hasn't come back from the laundry yet." (21.47-52)
Colonel Korn lies to General Dreedle about the reason Yossarian isn't wearing clothes so that he can save face in front of him. Korn hopes to win Dreedle's favor so he can be promoted. Thus he changes what he believes is a silly reason for being naked (being traumatized by your friend's death) into what he deems a reasonable explanation (that all Yossarian's clothes are at the laundry).
Quote #9
[Yossarian:] "Nothing would please me more than to have the son a b**** [Cathcart] break his neck or get killed in a crash or to find out that someone else had shot him to death. But I don't think I could kill him."
"He'd do it to you," Dobbs argued. "In fact, you're the one who told me he is doing it to us by keeping us in combat so long."
"But I don't think I could do it to him. He's got a right to live, too, I guess." (22.19-21)
Yossarian demonstrates his personal integrity by adhering to his belief that killing is wrong. In spite of all the wrongs done to him by Colonel Cathcart, he refuses to kill him.