Catch 22 Chunk #3 pgs 154-231

In Joseph Heller's Novel, Catch-22, chunk three starts off with chapter 16 where Yossarian meets a pretty girl named Luciana at a bar and falls in love with her. Once they part ways he tears up her number and throws it away. Later regretting it, he then found out that the colonel raised the number of missions to 60.  Yossarian got frustrated and went in to the hospital.  While in the hospital Yossarian has an epiphany that "There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate.  Few people died unnecessarily".  Also in the hospital he meet a doctor who would try to help him out of the war but Yosarrian needs to still fly 55 missions.  The novel then ventures off into Colonel Cathcart's story. The Colonel wants to get higher and higher in rank and be noticed more so he decides that he wants to get the chaplain to pray for them before missions so that he could get in this magazine.  Once the chaplain leaves he has to deal with Colonel Korn.  Korn is suspicious of the plum tomato that Colonel Cathcart gave the chaplain.  The chaplain also finds out that the C.I.D is trying to accused him of the Washington Irving fiasco.  Colonel Cathcart becomes very preoccupied with Yossarian because he feels like Yossarian is the cause of a lot of the problems thats have been occurring.  Through out this chunk Heller has really started to create a way to maybe get Yossarian out of flying missions.  Yet we still have Colonel Cathcart to worry about ruining those plans, Heller wants to give the reader the hope that Yossarian will find a way out but we still have the suspense because so far nothing is too good to be true like there is always a catch. The only thing that really went well with out a catch was Luciana. Thats interesting I wonder if that is significant.

Question #3 Everything in the soldiers lives ends up with a catch.  For Yossarian messing around with Luciana was normal, no catch.  He didn't even have to pay her for the relations.  What do you think about that, is it significant and important to his life and or story?  Do you think that there is hope for all the catches is his life to slowly die down?