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doctor ever wanted from them was to find something, anything wrong with him that would make him eligible to be sent home. They were complete idiots because they could never really assist the doctor with anything important, and they interpreted all of his orders too literally. The doctor was reported as killed in action because he was listed on the flight log of a crashed plane. When he went to talk to his assistants to see if there was anything wrong with him, they noted only a low temperature. They then went on to inform him that since he was dead, he was rather lucky that nothing else was wrong with him. One tragic thing that resulted from the circumstances that Doc Daneeka was subjected to was the fact that he lost his wife due to the war. After the doctor is listed as being

on the destroyed plane, his wife received a letter from her husband, and at the same time she received information that he was dead. Mrs.Daneeka, begins to grieve for her husband, but she does not know what to make of this puzzle. When she writes back to her husband, her letter is returned stamped that Doc Daneeka was killed in action. Again, the doctor sends her a quickly scribbled letter. Again, she receives official notice of his death. Mrs Daneeka decides to believe that her husband is dead in part because she can only receive benefits and pension money if he is dead. If there was ever a character that was adversely affected by the conditions of his time it was defiantly Doc Daneeka. Throughout the novel the doctor lists all of his grievances about his conditions with his

catch phrase, “If you think you’ve got problems . . . “. The doctor lost everything he had and all of his potential because of the war, and he is left at the end of the novel as a dead man that is really alive, which is just another example of Catch 22.