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The narrator, obviously a patient in the hospital, describes the head nurse as having finger tips of orange like, “the tip of a soldering iron. So hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can’t tell which.” There is already a sense of fear established with the head nurse; she must be strict and cruel to the patients for them to describe her in such ways. The head nurse tells the orderlies to take Bromden to get shaved; at first I was confused as to why he would be so afraid of this, other than the reason that he likes his hair. But it turns out getting shaved could mean one of two things, actually getting shaved, or getting shocked. It isn’t surprising that when McMurphy arrives at the hospital, no one understands his humor. Bromden describes the head nurse as a control freak, there seems to be a problem with women and their power in the hospital.
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