pages 131- 163/ July 12, 2010
Reading Response #5
Nurse Ratched actions of keeping McMurphy on the ward is risk but very well thought out. She realizes that McMurphy and the other patients are testing her and that if she gives up and sends him on to the “disturbed” part of the hospital that she is admitting defeat. I wonder if the decision of keeping him there will come back and result in something even worse for her. The nurse has realized that McMurphy is trying to play her. Earlier in the book, Chief Bromden and the patients have realized that she always wins these battles, and possibly this one will be no different. Nurse Ratched keeps McMurphy on her ward because she wants him to realize that she always wins because right now he believes that he can break her. However, I believe that moving McMurphy to a different ward would be wrong would be wrong but not for the reasons why the nurse kept him there. Randle McMurphy has not done anything that would suggest that he is dangerous in anyway. Although he has acted out when he has not gotten his way, like many other patients have, the aides were able to control him and nothing too severe took place.
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