What is The Caine Mutiny?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Caine Mutiny''''' is a 1951 [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning [[war novel]] by [[Americans|American]] [[Jewish]] author [[Herman Wouk]]. In 1953, Herman Wouk wrote a [[play]] called ''The Caine Mutiny Court Martial'' based on the [[trial]] from the book and in which [[Henry Fonda]] played Greenwald. In 1954, there was a [[movie]] based on the book, in which [[Humphrey Bogart]] played Queeg. ==Synopsis== {{plot|date=March 2020}} Willis Seward Keith has graduated [[Princeton University]] studying [[literature]]. Willie’s mother wants him to continue his studies and get a [[masters degree]]. Willie plays [[piano]] and wants to go into [[show business]]. As a result, Willie meets and starts [[dating]] a [[singer]] whose [[stage name]] is May Wynn. Then the [[Japan|Japanese]] bomb [[Pearl Harbor]] and Willie is afraid he’ll have to be sent to the [[army]]. So that that doesn’t happen, Willie joins the [[Navy]]. Willie is assigned to a ship called the USS Caine. He hates the [[captain]] for being too laidback and easygoing and [[sarcastic]] and not caring about how things look. The captain is then replaced by a new captain named Queeg. Queeg is mean, gets very [[angry]] is almost [[paranoid]] and always wants everything to be done his way. Queeg makes everyone on the Caine miserable. Tom Keefer, who is trying to write a [[novel]] about how horrible the [[navy]] is can’t get any work on his book done so he tries to convince Steve Maryk, who is Queeg’s second in command, that Queeg is [[insane]] and cannot command a [[ship]] in a time of [[war]]. Maryk doesn’t want to believe Keefer but then the ship ends up in the middle of a [[typhoon]]. Since there is no written rule about how to get out of a [[typhoon]], Queeg tries to get out by following the rule to avoid getting into a [[typhoon]]. Since it doesn’t seem to be working Maryk decides Queeg is [[insane]] and takes over as [[captain]] with Willie’s help. Queeg has them put on [[trial]] for [[mutiny]] as soon as they get back to the [[U