AP English Literature and Composition › Literary Analysis of American Prose
All of the following novels are set during World War II, EXCEPT __________.
Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier
Normal Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
Joseph Heller's Catch-22
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
Ford Maddox Ford (1873–1939) belongs to an earlier generation of writers, and did not live to see the outbreak of World War II. The Good Soldier was written during—and is set against the backdrop of—World War I.
The other titles are all iconic World War II novels that in different ways portray the dehumanizing effects of war.