one flew over…
The main conflict between nurse Rachet and McMurphy, is the power they have over people. The nurse has power over all the board and fellow employee’s and the patients, physically, but McMurphy has power over the patients mentality. The psych ward is much different of the real world becuase, during that time men were still very much in control of most of the world, where as it was completely opposite in the mental institution. The book takes on so many issues, from segregation, to harrasment, to race, to sexism, there are so many messed up problems that need fixed and it all seems to point back to the nurse. I read a book similar to this in my psychology class called girl interupted, except the nurse and the people that worked their weren’t “the bad guys” but there was a character much like McMurphy that was a girl in the story. I find stories like these very interesting, in thinking, if thoughts like these really do go through mental patients heads.