ABSTRACT
War II as a reflex of cultural anarchy. Heller's Catch-22 represents the army as a continuation of civilian life, with all its greed, ambition, ideological intimidation, and bureaucratic tyranny. In The Naked and the Dead, Mailer arranges his characters, in parallel order among enlisted men and officers, to symbolize the political tensions in American society. In Dog Soldiers (1974) , Robert Stone superimposes the moral chaos of Vietnam and the underworld of American civilian life.
