History TearJerker / CatchTwentyTwo

** What's worse is the implication that, unlike Giuseppe's father and brother, his mother knows perfectly well that it is not her son in the ward and that he has already died.

--> '''The father:''' When you talk to the man upstairs, I want you to tell Him something for me. Tell Him it ain't right for people to die while they're young. I mean it. Tell Him if they got to die at all, they got to die when they're old. I want you to tell Him that. I don't think He knows it ain't right, because He's supposed to be good and it's been going on for a long, long time. Okay?
--> '''The brother:''' And don't let anyone up there push you around. You'll be just as good as anyone else in Heaven, even though you are Italian.
--> "Dress warm," said the mother, who seemed to know.

* Also, the deaths of [=McWatt=] and Kid Sampson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh. [=McWatt=] accidentally slices Kid Sampson in two while flying low in his plane for fun, and when he realizes what he had done he has the entire crew jump out on parachutes, then [[DrivenToSuicide flies into a mountain]]. If you want a good cry, just imagine how the conversation onboard the plane at that point went down. Especially because previous to that [[=McWatt=]] was the [[ThePollyanna Eternal Optimist.]]

* Also, the deaths of [=McWatt=] and Kid Sampson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh. [=McWatt=] accidentally slices Kid Sampson in two while flying low in his plane for fun, and when he realizes what he had done he has the entire crew jump out on parachutes, then [[DrivenToSuicide flies into a mountain]]. If you want a good cry, just imagine how the conversation onboard the plane at that point went down. Especially because previous to that [=McWatt=]]] was the [[ThePollyanna Eternal Optimist.

* The latter parts of ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''. A story that had been lighthearted and bizarre [[spoiler:suddenly takes a turn for dark territory, killing off a lot of the characters]], and the second-to-last chapter [[spoiler:that details Snowden's death.]]

* The chaplain breaking down in tears, when he learns [[spoiler: Nately has been killed.]]

* Also, the deaths of [[spoiler:[=McWatt=] and Kid Sampson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh. [=McWatt=] accidentally slices Kid Sampson in two while flying low in his plane for fun, and when he realizes what he had done he has the entire crew jump out on parachutes, then [[DrivenToSuicide flies into a mountain]].]] If you want a good cry, just imagine how the conversation onboard the plane at that point went down. Especially because previous to that [[spoiler:[=McWatt=]]] was the [[ThePollyanna Eternal Optimist.]]

* Also, the deaths of [[spoiler:[=McWatt=] and Kid Sampson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh. [=McWatt=] accidentally slices Kid Sampson in two while flying low in his plane for fun, and when he realizes what he had done he has the entire crew jump out on parachutes, then [[DrivenToSuicide flies into a mountain]].]] If you want a good cry, just imagine how the conversation onboard the plane at that point went down. Especially because previous to that [[spoiler:McWatt]] was the [[ThePollyanna Eternal Optimist.]]

* Also, the deaths of [[spoiler:[=McWatt=] and Kid Sampson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh. [=McWatt=] accidentally slices Kid Sampson in two while flying low in his plane for fun, and when he realizes what he had done he has the entire crew jump out on parachutes, then [[DrivenToSuicide flies into a mountain]].]] If you want a good cry, just imagine how the conversation onboard the plane at that point went down. Especially because previous to that [[spoiler:McWatt]] was the EternalOptimist.

* In the chapter "The Eternal City", Yossarian wanders around in Rome, looking for Nately's whore's kid sister. Everywhere he looks, he sees misery and cruelty: a nursing mother with an infant in rags, a barefoot, sickly, pale boy, a soldier having convulsions helplessly, a woman being raped, a man beating a dog, another man beating a boy. He doesn't find a girl, and he returns to his apartment late in the night to find that Aarfy has raped and killed a maid. The police comes and arrests Yossarian for being in Rome without a pass.

* In the chapter "The Eternal City", Yossarian wanders around in Rome, looking for Nately's whore's kid sister. Everywhere he looks, he sees misery and cruelty: a nursing mother with an infant in rags, a barefoot, sickly, pale boy, a soldier having convulsions helplessly, a woman being raped, a man beating a dog, another man beating a boy. He doesn't find a girl, and he returns to his apartment late in the night to find that Aarfy has raped and killed a maid. The police cames and arrests Yossarian for being in Rome without a pass.

* In the chapter "The Eternal City", Yossarian wanders around in Rome, looking for Nately's whore's kid sister. Everywhere he looks, he sees misery and cruelty: a nursing mother with an infant in rags, a barefoot, sickly, pale boy, a soldier having convulsions helplessly, a woman being raped, a man beating a dog, another man beating a boy. He doesn't find a girl, and he returns to his apartment late in the night to find that Aarfy has raped and killed a maid.

* In the chapter "The Eternal City", Yossarian wanders around in Rome, looking for Nately's whore's kid sister. Everywhere he looks, he sees misery and cruelty: a nursing mother with an infant in rags, a barefoot, sickly, pale boy, a soldier having convulsions helplessly, a woman being raped, a man beating a dog, another man beating a boy.

* Also, the deaths of [[spoiler:[=McWatt=] and Kid Sampson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh. [=McWatt=] accidentally slices Kid Sampson in two while flying low in his plane for fun, and when he realizes what he had done he has the entire crew jump out on parachutes, then [[DrivenToSuicide flies into a mountain]].]]

* The latter parts of ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''. A story that had been lighthearted and bizarre [[spoiler:suddenly takes a turn for dark territory, killing off a lot of the characters]], and the second-to-last chapter [[spoiler:that details Snowden's death]]

* Yossarian waiting in his tent for Orr to return.
* The chaplain, when he discovers [[spoiler: Nately has been killed.]]
* The part where Yossarian has to act like he's Guiseppe. Sure, it's pretty funny, but it's also kinda sad.
* Also, [[spoiler:the deaths of [=McWatt=] and Kid Samson, [=McWatt=] especially. Arrgh.]]