Wow. There's really not much to say other than that. Bromden gets out!? Really? The guy who didn't speak for the majority of the book and he gets out? Very, very, very sneaky of Ken Kesey to do this. I thought it was really interesting how McMurphy is portrayed as the sane one throughout the entire book but we soon find out that he's actually insane, or at least goes it.
So what exactly does McMurphy do that shows he could be "insane"...he strangles Nurse Ratched. Throughout the book, it's been the little annoying pranks on her, but this time. He strangled her, and she is unable to speak. It seems like McMurphy's insane characteristics came out of nowhere. Ken Kesey seemed to build up that other patients, like Bromden who's body build could take on anyone, would outbreak. However, it's the man who was supposedly the most sane the entire time.
The shocking part of the ending is the McMurphy is given a lobotomy and tuns into a "chronic". Or someone who's like a vegetable. Chief Bromden does the unknown and kills McMurphy and throws the control panel out the window and escapes. What I thought of when this happened is what McMurphy told the people at the gas station on the fishing trip. Saying that everyone on the bus is an insane murderer or killer. Seems like it backfired on McMurphy as that he was actually killed by one of the insane murderers on the bus. So Chief Bromden, the one who's assumed to be insane from the beginning, who hadn't talked in a long time, escaped. Ken Kesey, you sneak.
I found the ending to be very shocking. I feel like Bromden and McMurphy switched character roles. I would have thought that it would be McMurphy who escapes at the end. Kesey messed with out minds as portraying Bromden a certain way and then the last few parts of the book suddenly changing his character.
ReplyDeleteI also found the ending to also be really shocking and a little out of control of Ken Kesey to do. I wouldve thought that Nurse Ratched wouldve given McMurphy electroshock therapy until he would die, but instead Bromden kills him? That doesn't make any sense. I also would have thought it would be McMurphy to escape at the end not to die? I do like the fact though that Ken Kesey built up Bromden throughout the book to be a patient who doesn't talk to someone who escapes, and this is all because of McMurphy.
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