Chapter 19:
The chapter is titled “Colonel Cathcart”. Describe his character, his attitudes and outlook, what motivates him, how he thinks. Please use your own words...do not just copy language from the text.
Colonel Cathcart Is a man of success but still very unhappy. He can only base his own progress based on the progress of others and only feels a sense of pride or accomplishment if he does as well or better than everyone else in his age group. His ultimate goal was to become a general and always brought attention to himself around superiors to try to reach that goal. But the fact was that there are other people who were younger than he was and had a higher ranking than he did gnawed away at him creating anxiety worse than anyone else's. Pretty much he thinks he’s the shit and and anyone who is anyone should bow down in his presence, but when he realizes he's not the best he throws a tantrum in his own mind creating anxiety.
Why does Cathcart want his picture in the Saturday Evening Post? What does this desire say about him?
This overwhelming desire to have his picture on the Saturday Evening Post shows that Cathcart wants everyone to see how big of a…show more content… Although the chapters about the characters contribute to a more complete picture of the character, the reader who wants a full understanding of each character’s story must sift through the material making the novel very jointed. Such as colonel Cathcart, throughout the novel Heller kept putting hints about Colonel Cathcart and his personality “Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available”(Pg 55) this shows that he is willing to put his own men on the line for anything but Heller never goes any deeper than that to describe his actual situation or his personality until chapter 19 titled “Colonel
