“Nobody complains about all the fog… as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That’s what McMurphy can’t understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we’d be easy to get at.” Page 123
Acting “crazy” and insignificant is now a comfort zone for the men. It comes across that they don’t have to be treated as clear thinking adults. The patients have been living in a fog and they don’t have to the face the truth of the situation. Nurse Ratched wants to keep it this way; this is how she maintains control of everything all the time. McMurphy wants them out of “the fog” and thinking clearly and for themselves, but this can’t happen unless the men are willing to cooperate with him.
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