This book has a lot of different things going on that may be difficult to understand. One is if Cheswick commits suicide or just drowns. When all of the Acutes take a trip to the swimming pool and McMurphy decides to stop rebelling. This causes some of the Acutes, like Cheswick, to become depressed. He was sent to the disturbed after rebelling all by himself with no help from the others. He had no help because most of the oatients follow McMurphy's example. Cheswick says, "I did wish something mighta been done, though."(151) and then he dove into the water.
So did he do this on purpose to drown because he was hurt McMurphy gave up on him or for any other reason? Or was it all an accident and did his fingers just get caught in the drain? At first I did not think that he committed suicide but all things considered, it is starting to seem very suspicious. I think that Cheswick might have actually done this by choice, he was upset at McMurphy, he had just been sent to the disturbed, and he probably did not want to go back. As a reader we can not be sure yet we can only assume, what is your opinion?
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Signet,1962. Print.
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I too at first thought that Cheswick had done this by accident. I thought his hang just was stuck and he could no get out of it. But once I looked into it more, it came to seem more as if he did do it on purpose. It makes it seem like he did it on accident at first, but then once the author explains it more it seems more to be that he wanted to drown. For example, when they said that when they tried to pull him out he was holding on to the grater thing and so it made it more noticeable that he did want to kill himself. This part confused me so much and I had to read over it to finally get what it was really saying. So I am in the same boat as you on this one.
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