During this book we come to a bit of a dilemma. The reader has to figure out what they think happened to him. The part of the story that I am talking about is when Cheswick went to the pool one day and didn’t return alive. After leaving the disturbed Cheswick went straight to the pool. He said that he wanted change and dove into the pool. Then Cheswick got his fingers stuck on the grate at the bottom of the pool in such a way that the black boys and the life guard couldn’t get him un stuck but when they pulled him up finally they saw that he was actually holding himself there. The book says so, “ brought Cheswick up, with the grate still clutched by his chubby pink and blue fingers, he was drowned”(Kesey 151). This proves that he was actually clenching the grate to hold him under the water. I know that studies show that you cant actually drowned yourself on purpose, but we have to remember that he was insane. He probably didn’t know what he was doing or maybe he did but we wont know. It’s very sad that he did kill himself because of how he did it; the other patience might be traumatized by this because he did it in front of them. I think that he did kill himself just to get away from the disturbed.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 1962. Print.
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