Hungry Joe - Definition

Hungry Joe is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22. He is noted in the novel for constantly trying to photograph women nude, claiming to be a photographer for Life Magazine (which, ironically, he actually is). His pictures never come out; reportedly, he chokes by leaving the lens cap on or forgetting to put film in the camera. Like most men in the novel, he tries to have sex with these women as well, and likewise he fails, for reasons the novel never explores. Huple's cat repeatedly sleeps on his face, thereby suffocating him until the last moment when he wakes up. He eventually dies when he does not wake up, causing him to suffocate.

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