We have already witnessed in "The Three Musketeers" the fact that heroes have a tendency of falling in love very easily. D'Artagnan felt great affection for three different women throughout the story and this kept leading him to more trouble. With Yossarian it is not different. He had just met Luciana, an Italian woman, and he "falls in love" with her. The difference in this situation though is that Yossarian has witnessed nothing but death and sorrow for the past weeks. So, for Yossarian any sign of affection shown by a person of the opposite sex can make him fall in love.
Luciana also shows Yossarian a scar of when the Americans bombed her hometown. This event makes him even more eager to leave the war and feel remorse for being part of something horrible that not only killed many innocent people but also hurt a loved one.
Luciana then parts, and they don't see each other again. Even though they only saw each other for two days, she touched Yossarian's heart. He felt good feelings that only a hero could have felt.
Friday, February 8
The love of Heroes
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Things do get amplified if they are not experienced for a long time. I’m sure that if you have not eaten a favorite food for a long time it will probably feel like it is the best thing that you have ever eaten. Another situation that would probably be similar will be during the time of the California gold rush and Comestock lode. Most of the people in the new boom towns create by gold and silver were men. Any affection from women would have been highly longed for. Prostitutes became very wealthy during those times. I think that in addition to your reason you gave, he would have been around men most of time. So seeing a woman that has affection for him would have been welcomed.
I like that you connected your second book with your first book and related a similar event in one book to another similar occurrence in another.
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