Joseph Heller's early 1960s novel Catch-22 is a satirical depiction of war and the American bureaucratic system. It is a comical and witty book that seems to gradually become darker in its depiction of war and human suffering. In my article I will mainly focus on Milo Minderbinder, one of the two main characters of the book, who as the personification of modern capitalism and human greed in general, just like the atmosphere of the book, progressively changes from humor to ferocious satire. At the beginning of the book it doesn't seem like Milo Minderbinder will become the metaphor for capitalism and greed that he later turns into, since he starts out as a simple mess officer, who, as they say in the book, just wants to "give the men of the squadron the best meals in the whole world” and for whom “the position of mess officer was a sacred trust”. (Heller, 65) He is even described by Heller through the eyes of the main protagonist Yossarian as having a "simple and sincere face, incapable of subtlety or cunning, an honest and frank face" and as "a man of hardened integrity who could not violate consciously the moral principles on which his virtue rested more than he could turn into a despicable toad.” (Heller, 66) An example of the integrity that Milo possessed in the beginning is also the episode where Milo takes McWatt's stolen sheet back from the thief by making him believe that he would give him dates, thus giving us a preview of his craft skills. Milo's morals are evident in the fact that he didn't even want to borrow the dates from the canteen because he would consider them a theft from the government, so he borrows them from Yossarian and returns them as promised along with a piece of McWatts b... in the center of the newspapers ......, which include not only wartime but almost all of modern life, indeed the entire human condition, of which war is ultimately a metaphor. (Dickstein, 114) Heller uses the character of Milo to represent in an extremely satirical way the consequences of American capitalism and capitalism in general, which is absurd, evil, corrupt and also as contagious and deadly as a disease.http://books. google.hr/books?id=X3HN2tYhR0cC&pg=PA149&dq=milo+minderbinder+humor+e+satire&hl=hr&sa=X&ei =lScQT-j3DYf6sgbGmMgz&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=milo%20minderbinder%20humor%20and%20%20satire &f=falseDickstein, Morris. Eden's Gate: American Culture in the 1960s Heller, Joseph. Capture-22. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1985David M. Craig. "Joseph Heller." A companion to twentieth-century American fiction. David Seed. Hong Kong: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.2010.413.