Chapter 16: Luciana

In Chapter 16 of Catch-22, Yossarian meets a beautiful Italian woman named Luciana at a bar in Rome. She agrees to spend the night with him, but only after she cleans his room and berates him for being a pig. Despite this, Yossarian falls in love with her and proposes marriage, but she rejects him, saying that he must be crazy to want to marry a girl who is not a virgin. After they part ways, Yossarian regretfully tears up her phone number. Later, when he learns that Colonel Cathcart has increased the required number of missions to 40, Yossarian decides to go to the hospital.