It's kind o f odd how McMurphy wants to leave with a prostitue named Candy Starr. I know he's challenging authority but does he actually believe that he'll be able to leave for a couple hours with a prostitute? It seems very childish and unlike his last attack towards authority. It's not like the Nurse, or the rest of the authority, doesn't know what would happen if he left with a prostitute.
However, McMurphy was smart in asking to go on a fishing trip since it's not TOO out there and some say (outside of the book) that fishing is in fact therapeutic. As people sign up to go fishing, Nurse Ratched posts stories about storms and boat crashes thinking that the other patients won't sign up. It's almost like the Nurse thinks that by posting stories about boat crashes that the patients will stay in the institute and just let McMurphy go on his own. She's forgotten that she's hated throughout the institute and that McMurphy is mostly liked.
When Bromden thought of his childhood, about when he never talked to adults, I thought that he's been kind of the same throughout his entire life; shy and quiet. It seems as if McMurphy is cracking into Bromden's mind as if it were a puzzle. First McMurphy is clearing Bromden's thoughts and then what? I can't wait to see what Bromden does in the future, anyone else pumped?
My question is why is Nurse Ratched so protective over these patients? Doesn't she have anything better to do than keep all of these people captive? The fact that she won't let McMurphy go to the other ward and the fact that she told the patients about all these stories just so they won't want to go fishing is a little extreme. I still don't know what it is but she has a weakness that if she lets them go that weakness is shown.
ReplyDeleteI am intereested in seeing how the fishing trip goes. I wonder if Bromden will keep to himself during the trip. Do you think he will open up to the other patients as well? I think that the reason the nurse is trying to prevent the patients from going on the trip is because she doesn't want to lose another battle. After saying no to the fishing trip, McMurphy got permission from the doctor. She is still trying to fight for her cause.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised that his fishing trip is going to work to his benefit. At this point it seems as if McMurphy has no power anymore and Nurse has a hold over him. Again, McMurphy is getting back at Ratched and it seems like he's getting away with it. Ratched is all about getting the majority of people on her side. She figures if the other patients agree to go on this fishing trip, McMurphy will feel a sense of power. Now, I'm not sure why McMurphy is still trying to get on Ratched's bad side, since his goal is to leave the ward as soon as possible. But this on-going battle is almost as if its natural for the both of them to act the way they do.
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