Closing Time shares characteristics with each of Heller's previous five novels. Of course, its closest similarity is with Catch-22, with which it shares characters, such as Yossarian, Milo Minderbender, and Chaplain Tappmann; evokes episodes, such as Yossarian's hospitalization, Snowden's death, and Yossarian's sitting naked in a tree refusing to accept Milo's offer of chocolate-covered cotton; and recalls the circular, non-sequitur, absurdist dialogue of its predecessor and the surrealistic vision of "The Eternal City" chapter in its portrayal of the PABT and.....
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