Leon Sheltzer said it best when he stated that of all the characters exmeplifying moral insanity in the novel, by far “the most prominent of them is Milo Minderbinder, the squadrons mess officer”(Sheltzer, 292). Yossarian describes his appearance as “a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtly, or guile, an honest, frank face…”(Heller, 64). Milo began a small time commercial broker on an Army outpost during the war. Milos most repeated phrase is that “everyone has a share”, though nobody besides him ever recieved any sort of financial profit off of the syndicate. Milo is looking out more for his own income and wealth than that of the soldiers. According to writer Rick Markley, Milo’s character was a representation of what happened when
