The Soldier Who Sees Everything Twice

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The Soldier Who Sees Everything Twice is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22. While faking illness in the hospital, Yossarian meets a delirious soldier who screams that he sees everything twice. No matter how many fingers the doctors hold up for him to identify, he sees two. Yossarian thinks he is a fine role model and begins to imitate him until the soldier dies, at which point Yossarian declares that he sees everything once. In one of the most surreal sections of the book, a doctor forces Yossarian to fill in for the dead soldier when his family visits. The family doesn't seem to notice Yossarian is not really their son, Giuseppe.


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Yossarian • Aarfy • Appleby • Captain Black • The Chaplain • Colonel Cargill • Colonel Cathcart • Clevinger • Nurse Cramer • Major Danby • Doc Daneeka • Major —— de Coverley • General Dreedle • Dobbs • Nurse Duckett • Dunbar • Dori Duz • Lieutenant Engle • Captain Flume • Gus & Wes • Havermeyer • Huple • Hungry Joe • Kid Sampson • Sergeant Knight • Corporal Kolodny • Colonel Korn • Kraft • Luciana • Major Major Major Major • McWatt • Michaela • Milo Minderbinder • Colonel Moodus • Mudd (aka the Dead Man in Yossarian's tent) • Nately • Orr • General Peckem • Piltchard & Wren • Major Sanderson • Lieutenant/General Scheisskopf • Mrs Scheisskopf • Corporal Snark • Snowden • The Soldier Who Sees Everything Twice (aka Giuseppe) • Dr. Stubbs • Sergeant Towser • Lieutenant Travers • Corporal Whitcomb • Chief White Halfoat • ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
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