Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
He works in a large company with hundreds of similiar
men. Feels like he has become a small cog, detail, in impersonal machine of the company. He
does the same thing every day. Even his wife knows exactly who he has been talking to, cant
hide anything. The rules of life, he says that, for on to succeed has to play golf with the boss,
has to wear right clothes, and cant say the word nigger and has to be succesful. He has
become a product of standardisation because of the rules, he is succesul because he is like
everyone else. He is a conformist. The inner self is egoistic. Bob Slogam has to avoids
everything that is tragic, like blind people. Wants his blind mother to die. Younger generation
is not much better, they dont care for their parents, they dont care about school, education,
they have no ambition, they are salky, unhappy, dissatisfied with everything. Jospeh heller
gives a collective picture of his characters, many of them has no names. There is one