One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Throughout the book McMurphy tries to get the Big Nurse out of the institute. He wants everything in the institute to go his way. McMurphy says he wants to go to the bathroom more than “two times a day” to Cheswick (146). This makes everyone wonder why they don’t get that. McMurphy also tries to get the dorms unlocked on weekends, change the time of watching TV and also to have more cigarettes per day. All of this he thinks is making Big Nurse upset when actually she doesn’t show any emotions about it. She will sit at the doctor’s meeting and not say anything to them. So in the end I don’t think McMurphy will be able to get the Big Nurse out of the institute. She may end up taking him out because he will become a disturbance to the other patients. McMurphy doesn’t listen to the Big Nurse. She says that it is a “group therapy” and McMurphy doesn’t listen to her he wants everything to goes his way (123). Since the Big Nurse is trying to control McMurphy, he just comes up with other ways to make her upset by asking the doctor who sometimes will go with McMurphy’s idea and she still doesn’t get upset about it. McMurphy I think will end up having to go to another institute because he is a disturbance to the other patients.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York: Penguin Books, 1962. Print

Courtney Kjeldgaard