One Flew Over the Cuckoo nest: Quote 3

“If somebody’d of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they’d have thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.” Page 138

This quote is significant because it presents the idea of everyone in the hospital being mentally ill, not just the patients, but also the wards and the nurses. Here the main problem of no one knowing how to deal with and treat the patients correctly is present. Nurse Ratched seems just as crazy as the men, she has her own insecurities and problems, and it shows here.

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