Known for its satirical nature the popular war novel Catch-22 is often cited as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This novel is set in World War II primarily following the life of Captain John Yossairian. Through the use of a fictional US Army Squadron the novel exposes the absruditiy of military life and the acts of war. After its publication, the novel quickly became popular amoung teens and young adults with negative feelings about the Vietnam War. According to David M. Craig in the article CLOSURE RESISTED: STYLE AND FORM IN JOSEPH HELLER'S NOVELS  a "common joke was that every student who went off to college at the time took along a copy of Catch-22."  The novel employs a distictive non-chronological omniscent narrative voice as it describes experiences through different characters' points of view. It is Heller's distinct style that draws the reader in and truly makes this an influential novel, "in the opening lines ... Heller annouonces his authorial stance and invites the reader to observe his prose performance" (Craig). Heller goes on in pattern of first stating a clear, direct, and jarring phrase then in the next phrase leaving the reader with a feeling of confusion as he stops short, deflecting or contradicting the assumptions one would normally make about the inital phrase. Not only is this style famously assoicated with Heller's wirting but it does a wonderful job of putting the reader in a place to understand the satirical nature of his work. 

Craig, David M. “CLOSURE RESISTED: STYLE AND FORM IN JOSEPH HELLER'S NOVELS.” The Centennial Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 1986, pp. 238–250. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23738715. Accessed 4 June 2021.