Pages 40-82
The head nurse, Nurse Ratched, is a very cruel woman just as I had suspected. McMurphy isn’t an outspoken guy, from right off the bat he has been honest with his true character, and he is a goofy guy who is not afraid to show himself. When McMurphy interrupts nurse Ratched as she is trying to start the meeting, she then reads his files aloud for everyone to hear, but this doesn’t bother McMurphy, he keeps making jokes about it. Finally Nurse Ratched starts to pester Harding, one of the guys on the ward about his relationship with his wife, Harding thinks that his wife is cheating on him and he is very insecure about their relationship. Nurse Ratched knowingly encourages the other men to join her in criticizing and insulting him. While McMurphy sits back and questioningly watches this happen. It is really quite disgusting that the head Nurse encourages the boys to find out secrets about the others and then write them down in the log book as incentives for sleeping in late. McMurphy explains the meeting very truly, and at first Harding doesn’t agree with him, but then he admits that Nurse Ratched is just trying to break the men down.
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