他对他们作为性生物的回应是疯狂的崇拜和偶像崇拜之一。他们是可爱的,令人满意的,疯狂的表现,这些奇迹,愉悦的乐器太强大了,无法衡量,太热衷于忍受,而且太精致,无法供基础,不值得的人来工作。他只能将他们赤裸裸地掌握在手中的裸露,只有一个注定要迅速纠正的宇宙监督,而他总是被驱使他在两次短暂的时刻都能使用肉体的使用,而他觉得自己有过的两个人,然后有人抓住了明智的人并把他们赶走了。
(His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man. He could interpret their naked presence in his hands only as a cosmic oversight destined to be rectified speedily, and he was driven always to make what carnal use of them he could in the fleeting moment of two he felt he had before Someone caught wise and whisked them away.)
“ Catch-22”中的叙述者呈现出对女性的深刻而几乎崇高的看法,作为美丽和愉悦的体现。他对他们的性行为的反应充满了钦佩和敬畏感,因为他将它们视为奇迹般的生物,其物理形式对于尘世生存的目的而言太宏伟了。他对他们的魅力感到不知所措,不仅将他们视为欲望的对象,而且是比他自己更大的事物的强大象征。
这种钦佩导致了一种紧迫感,因为他认为这种美丽是短暂的,很快就会被带走。他对他们的存在的态度的标志是抓住时刻并体验他们所提供的乐趣,然后才被剥夺了机会。这种充满活力的凸显了他在欣赏神性和努力与自己的缺陷人类斗争之间的斗争,在对待妇女的待遇中创造了欲望和绝望的复杂相互作用。