cuckoos nest 2

In this ection there is kinf of an ongoing battle between the Big Nurse and McMurphy. They go back and forth trying to be in control at the ward but I think that Mcmurphy ends up winning the battle. The moment that he wins is when the other patients defy the nurse along with him and pull up chairs to watch the baseball game. This shows that in the battle for control of the ward, the other patients have moved away from Big NUrse and instead follow McMurphy. This does not sit well with the Nurse because she knows that it will be mmuch harder to keep the total control that she once had with the patients followin this rebellious patient.

Bromden obviously likes Mc Murphy, in fact it seems that he looks up to him. Bromden is still reliabe in my opinion because of two reasons. First, he is able to produce very clear descriptions of what is going on in the ward when he is not medicated. That being said, he is not able to do that when he is on medication. Second, because he is perceived as a deaf mute, people are willing to talk about their true feelings about the ward and the people inside because they assume he does not understand and obvioulsy wont pass it on to anyone else.