Rachael Stevick
I have really grown an interest with Nurse Ratched. She is not only in charge of these patients she is a "machine." Despite her breakdown I feel she is essential to this book and to the other character's in this novel.
The "ball cutter" herself. Ratched is the one person who really seems to keep the institution from going to shambles. In our discussions before we have talked about how she may be making the patients worse driving them in fact more crazy. But I do feel at the time she was doing the best she could do. She is pushy that's for sure but she cant be a pushover to these mentally ill people that would be unjust. Broomden refers to her as the machine. He truly believes she s not a human, but a robot. She is designed to have things a certain way and if they are not that way she gets very upset. She has a way to do things and its her way or the highway. I can in way respect her for that. To me she also is pretty observant. She knows when something isn't right and she knows McMurphy is stirring the pot with the gambling and what not. He even has a sense of fear for her wanting to get on her good side this is of course because she has the decision if she feels you're ready to leave or not.
I agree that she is working for the best interest of the patients. However, I still think that it is strange that she sometimes acts above the doctors when they would usually have more authority in any other hospital.
ReplyDeleteRachael Stevick
ReplyDeleteI think that's just an authors preference not something we need to look too far into. I think she acts above them because she is the one controlling them and in charge of them. She is one on one with them all the time
Abby Hudrlik
ReplyDeleteI love your points you made on Nurse Ratched. I find it very clever of the author to use Chief Bromden's mental illness to describe her as a machine. This is a good way for us to get a good description of her through the eyes of a mental patient. With his illness, him seeing her as a "machine" tells us that she's very organized and basically a perfectionist. She's obviously not an actual machine, but she acts as if she is one.
Zach Torbett
ReplyDeleteI think it's funny the way they compare the institution to an industrial environment. Furthermore, I can start to see how things are falling in place. This whole book reminds me of "There Will Come Soft Rains". Everything seems to be a routine, unchanging no matter what the circumstances. Everything runs on a schedule and everything works off each other.
Zach Torbett
ReplyDeleteI think it's funny the way they compare the institution to an industrial environment. Furthermore, I can start to see how things are falling in place. This whole book reminds me of "There Will Come Soft Rains". Everything seems to be a routine, unchanging no matter what the circumstances. Everything runs on a schedule and everything works off each other.