Milo Minderbinder

First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel, Catch-22. As the mess officer of Yossarian's squadron, Minderbinder is an entrepreneur during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional businessmen" in American literature.[1] The Minderbinder character is a "bittersweet parody" of the American dream, both a "prophet of profit" and the "embodiment of evil".[2] Minderbinder also appears in Heller's 1994 sequel Closing Time.

  1. ^ Brandes, Stuart Dean (1997). Warhogs: a history of war profits in America. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 273. ISBN 0-8131-2020-9.
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