How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him? (9.205)
Major Major is keenly frustrated by the inescapable cycle of Catch-22. When confronted by a man who tells him honestly that he doesn't want to be killed, a man who isn't ashamed to show his fear, Major Major realizes that Catch-22 does not allow him to respond in a manner worthy of the man. There is no way he can keep his personal integrity by granting Yossarian's request and still abide by the rules. Major Major compromises his integrity by telling Yossarian there is nothing he can do for him.
Quote #5
Yossarian […] continued searching intently, cold with a compassionate kind of fear now for the little bouncy and bizarre buck-toothed tentmate who had smashed Appleby's forehead open with a Ping-Pong racket and who was scaring the daylights out of Yossarian once again. (15.47)
Fearing for the life of his friend is one way that Yossarian reveals that his personal integrity is still intact. Despite all the rough talk between the men and the wartime dangers to which they have become hardened, Yossarian still has a compassionate core. He separates himself from the callous administration that does not care about its men's lives.
Quote #6
[…] but even that idyll had ended on a tragic note: he was still in good health when the quarantine period was over, and they told him again that he had to get out and go to war. Yossarian sat up in bed when he heard the bad news and shouted,
"I see everything twice." (18.51-52)
Yossarian lies to get what he wants. This lie may compromise his integrity, but from another viewpoint, it keeps him from being killed on the battlefield – an understandable desire.