"Then, just as she's rolling along at her biggest and meanest, McMurphy steps out of the latrine door right in front of her, holding that towel around his hips-stops her dead! She shrinks to about head-high to where that towel covers him, and he's grinning down on her. Her own grin is giving way, sagging at the edges."(87) This is a big point in the book because McMurphy finally got the best of the Big Nurse. Just when she was the biggest and meanest McMurphy comes out and undermines her with her rejection of sexuality. She shrinks down and McMurphy is the one smiling down on her. The Big Nurse has a plastic doll face with a smile that is always in a perfect red line and that is one of her biggest weapons against the patients. Her ability to keep a straight face no matter what makes her powerful. But at this moment her grin sags and starts to disappear making her less powerful. Here the tables turn and the patients gain the confidence to stand up for what they believe in as long as McMurphy is there to back them up.
"But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?"(82) This quote takes place right after the Chief dreams about the staff cutting up old Blastic during the night. In the morning they find out that old Blastic passed away in his sleep. The Chief has a mixed reality where the things he imagines are in fact true but he sees them in a way other people can't. The staff did not actually physically cut Blastic open and kill him. But they are the reason for his death. The hospital runs men down till they are old vegatables like Blastic and all they can do is wait to die. This quote also makes me think back to when Cheif described the Big Nurse. He said she was this giant machine and told us she carried around wires and gears in her bag to install in patients to control them. The Big Nurse is not actually a machine but she behaves like one. She has perfectly calculated movements and the perfect look that allows her to control the men. She does not install gears and wires in the men to control them but rather she installs fear. The Cheif can see this but in a slightly different way. Where is the line between reality and imagination? The answer is, there isnt one.
"But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?"(82) This quote takes place right after the Chief dreams about the staff cutting up old Blastic during the night. In the morning they find out that old Blastic passed away in his sleep. The Chief has a mixed reality where the things he imagines are in fact true but he sees them in a way other people can't. The staff did not actually physically cut Blastic open and kill him. But they are the reason for his death. The hospital runs men down till they are old vegatables like Blastic and all they can do is wait to die. This quote also makes me think back to when Cheif described the Big Nurse. He said she was this giant machine and told us she carried around wires and gears in her bag to install in patients to control them. The Big Nurse is not actually a machine but she behaves like one. She has perfectly calculated movements and the perfect look that allows her to control the men. She does not install gears and wires in the men to control them but rather she installs fear. The Cheif can see this but in a slightly different way. Where is the line between reality and imagination? The answer is, there isnt one.
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