Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Chapters 27–28

Nurse Sue Ann Duckett is a tall, spare, able, prompt, strict, intelligent, and responsible young woman who keeps her composure under almost any circumstance. Yossarian, therefore, cannot resist making a crude pass at her. His friend Dunbar joins in. They succeed in upsetting Nurse Duckett as well as the Colonel in command of the ward. Yossarian is placed in analysis with Major Sanderson, a psychiatrist, who thinks he is treating Anthony F. Fortiori because that is the name on the chart on Yossarian's bed. Dobbs still wants to kill Colonel Cathcart but changes his mind when he completes sixty missions and thinks he will get to go home. At that point, however, Yossarian is feeling murderous, having been cheated out of his free ticket home for being crazy. Orr continues to ditch his plane in the sea almost every time he flies a mission. When the squadron is ordered to attack Bologna for a third time, Orr fails to make it back. He is last seen paddling away from his single-engine plane as a storm hits.


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