Cuckoo's Nest: Three

Nurse Ratched plays a major role in this book and I would like to blog about her for this entry. Nurse Ratched as described by Chief Broom is said to be very pretty, but at the same time she is everyman in the wards nightmare. Her main purpose is to instill fear into the men in the ward. She wants everybody to be afraid of her, and she wants to make it known that she has the upper hand when it comes to anything. She will always win no matter what. She constantly puts the men down instead of helping the get better. She does this because she does not want the men to be cured, she wants them to stay there. She is manipulative and can’t be trusted. She has spies all around the ward, and she knows everything about everyone. She does everything in her power to make the men feel weaker than she is for the sole purpose of preventing them to rebel against her, but that isn’t the case when it comes to McMurphy. McMurphy serves ad Nurse Ratched’s character foil in the book. McMurphy is doing everything in his power to change the others and to get them to rebel, which is why he took the men on the fishing trip. Nurse Ratched is starting to realize the McMurphy is no good and is ruining everything that she made. She is slowly starting to fall apart.