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Colonel Cathcart is a character in Joseph Heller's Catch 22. He is the squadron commander based in Pianosa and is obsessed with becoming a general. As such, he does whatever it takes to please his superiors, particularly, by raising the number of missions the men have to fly to complete a tour of duty, beyond that normally ordered by other outfits. This becomes the bane of Yossarian's life.
In his attempts to please nearly everyone, Cathcart discovers that all the other soldiers hate him. This perspective lives largely in his mind. But it affects his relationships with the others and they soon begin to actually dislike and/or avoid him. His paranoid behavior grows throughout the book.
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