, the M & M company is not meant to be modeled on any true wartime corporation, although its name is a clear pun on the candy company M&Ms®. Perhaps, Heller intended M & M Enterprises to symbolize the ridiculous quality of wartime enterprises for profit. His statement is clear. Trying to make a profit in war can only result in pain and suffering such as Snowden's and is one of the most cold-blooded undertakings that is known.
Interestingly, although Billy Pilgrim's experience seems to be completely opposite to Snowden's, it is actually extraordinarily similar. He comes to prison camp where the Englishmen reside quite comfortably. "A clerical error early in the war, when food was still getting t
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