His family originally enlisted him to serve in the Air Corps, believing the war would be over by the time he finished his training and that he would mingle with "gentlemen".
He is often filled with American optimism, shown by his desire to marry his whore and send her kid sister to a respected U.S.
[1] He is killed on a mission when Dobbs accidentally flies his plane into Nately's while attempting to evade flak.
Nately's whore blames Yossarian and spends the rest of the book trying to murder him with various objects such as a potato peeler.
She subsequently dedicates herself to pursuing Yossarian, and ambushes him several times throughout the remainder of the novel in an attempt to exact revenge for Nately's death by stabbing him.
In the plot of the story, she constantly interrupts Nately and his whore while they are having sex as the little girl wants to become a prostitute like her sister.