他们是四个干净利落的孩子，他们玩得很开心，并且正在驾驶Yossarian坚果。他无法让他们了解自己是二十八岁的笨拙的老狂热，他属于另一代，另一个时代，另一个世界，让他度过美好时光使他无聊，不值得付出努力，他们也使他感到无聊。他不能让他们闭嘴；他们比女人差。他们的大脑不足以内向和压抑。
(They were four clean-cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.)
Yossarian感到越来越疏远了四个无忧无虑的年轻人，他们度过了愉快的时光，享受生活的享受。他们的旺盛与他自己的愤世嫉俗和疲惫的前景形成鲜明对比，因为他认为他们体现了他不再拥有的年轻人。尽管只有二十八岁，但他觉得自己像一个过时的遗物，属于过去的时代，无法欣赏他们的轻松愉快。当他努力与他们的观点联系时，他们不断的chat不休和快乐的举止使他感到沮丧。
他的刺激突出了世代的鸿沟，这表明他们缺乏内省和意识是他认为是一个缺陷的东西。 Yossarian的渴望，有一种深度和理解他所觉得自己的无忧态度缺失的感觉。这种区别使他感到被困在自己的犬儒主义中，无法在周围的轻浮性中找到喜悦。当他们沉浸在娱乐中时，他努力应对自己的经历的负担，展示了生活的负担如何使年轻人的活力变暗。