Hungry Joe
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Hungry Joe is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22. He is noted in the novel for constantly trying to photograph women nude, claiming to be a photographer for Life Magazine (which, ironically, he actually was before the war). His pictures never come out as he always chokes by leaving the lens cap on or forgetting to put film in the camera.
Like most men in the novel, he tries to have sex with these women as well but always fails as he can't decide to sleep with them or photograph them. Hungry Joe is one of the few characters in the novel who succesfully completes the required numbers of missions but, like the rest of them, is not allowed to go home. He enjoys doing missions since that is the only time he is ever able to sleep without having nightmares. When he does have nightmares, which is almost every night, he screams in his sleep incessantly. Huple's cat repeatedly sleeps on his face, thereby suffocating him until the last moment when he wakes up. He eventually dies when he does not wake up, causing him to suffocate.Template:Lit-stub