How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
When he had exhausted all the possibilities in the letters, he began attacking the names and addresses on the envelopes, obliterating whole homes and streets, annihilating entire metropolises with careless flicks of his wrist as though he were God. (1.12)
The censoring of the letters makes it seem as though the bureaucracy has the authority of God.
Quote #5
Appleby was as good at shooting crap as he was at playing Ping-Pong, and he was as good at playing Ping-Pong as he was at everything else. Everything Appleby did, he did well. Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood, and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him.
"I hate that son of a b****," Yossarian growled. (2.23-24)
Appleby is a symbol of American virtue. His character is described with such inflated language and exaggeration that he sounds like a saint – too good to be true. And he is, as is apparent by Yossarian's dislike of him. This shows Yossarian's derision of American values and the "American Way of Life."
Quote #6
…with the corporal in eyeglasses who everybody knew was probably a subversive. Captain Black knew he was a subversive because he wore eyeglasses and used words like panacea and utopia, and because he disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating un-American activities in Germany. (4.19)
Captain Black shows a fear of all things un-American, such as utopian society and Nazism. Because of the Captain's black-and-white view on such matters, the corporal is labeled a subversive without the benefit of the doubt.