Hungry Joe makes Sense

Chapter 6 is all about Hungry Joe! He's sort of the first character to be described as a true hero, in a sense of how soldiers and such are typically described in movies and books. He celebrates because he had done fifty missions, being brave and such, but when he doesn't get sent home -- they say he goes crazy. On page 39 of Catch-22, it states, "And suddenly it all made sense. Why not every night, indeed. It made sense to cry out in pain every night." Yossarian thinks that Hungry Joe makes more sense than the rest of the people in the squadron because he's the most realistic one out of all of them. All the sickness, the nightmares, and the anger he has all prove that he's a little more realistic and human than any of the others. Hungry Joe copes with his problems differently than the rest, but his way seems more natural than the others. What makes about everything to Yossarian is that it seems correct to have nightmares every night when people you know who are like 15-years-old are dying in horrible circumstances for reasons that don't seem to make much sense.