#mortola

Catch-22:

"a despicable, insidious, infuriating person that made me desperately wish to reach through the pages and strangle him. in the ww2 bomber they work in, the protagonist, yossarian, is repeatedly trapped, terrified and fearing for his life while surrounded by enemy fire, and every fucking time aarfy will block his only access to the parachutes and emergency exit,

and when yossarian panicks and tells him to move, he pretends not to hear him. even when yossarian becomes so scared that he screams at him and hits him to try and make him go away, aarfy just stands there smugly saying ""i can't hear you, can you speak up?"" like after half a book of wanting yossarian to beat this guy up, he finally snaps and starts hitting him, and aarfy just KEEPS IGNORING HIM until he crumples in despair. this culminates in yossarian being hit by flak and bleeding so much he thinks he's dying, begging for aarfy to help him, while aarfy just keeps smugly pretending he can't hear him until he passes out

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(trigger warning for rape) aarfy also has a deeply disgusting mindset about women. he shares a story about him and his friends gangraping a girl as if it's a funny story about a harmless prank, and near the end of the book he rapes and murders an italian woman. the worst thing is that as usual, aarfy is completely untouchable, and when the military police arrive while yossarian is confronting him, they arrest yossarian for being AWOL and don't give a shit about aarfy's crimes, letting him get away scot-free, and smiling smugly at yossarian as he's dragged away

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if you haven't read this book, then i can promise u will never see another fictional character that fills u with such a level of animalistic bloodlust as aarfy"