A Senseless Stream

Much of Catch-22 is written in the narrative form of stream of consciousness. By doing this, the author portrays Yossarian's point of view by writing the story in the form of his thought process. His topics of thought are constantly changing to whatever he thinks, which leaves me sometimes a little confused on where he is going with the points. Also, by writing in the narrative form of stream of consciousness, the author seems to have Yossarian begin stories several times, only to leave them without an end. To me, this is frustrating and leaves me wondering why the author would spend several pages talking about an intricate story, only to leave the readers disappointed when there turns out to be no point to them at all. One example of this that I have encountered so far is when Yossarian repeatedly mentions his friend Dunbar getting hit in the head by a prostitute. After describing the story for almost a full chapter, he ends it by simply saying that he doesn't know why it happened. Yossarian has since mentioned it several times, but still does not know why it happened. There is absolutely no point to the short story and I feel like it is simply an attempt to fill up the book.