Part Two- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In the beginning of part two it is mentioned that Nurse Ratched called a staff meeting. Chief is reluctant to clean the staff room because he is afraid that the nurse will know that he can hear. He believes that she will hurt him if she found out that he can hear. Then he realizes that he has to keep up to his usual behavior and rituals, because if he doesn’t it will show that he can hear and it would give his secret away. Back to the meeting, Chief walks in the room to see that things aren’t normal. The nurse didn’t touch her coffee and everyone was quiet.

Nurse Ratched had to be thinking about how she would go about talking about McMurphy in the meeting. She was unusually quiet during the beginning of the meeting. So the doctor started the meeting while the others added their opinion of what to do with McMurphy. I believe that Nurse Ratched just wanted to show everyone that she still was in control. McMurphy had knocked her down a few pegs by constantly disobeying her. So she decides to show her staff who is in charge. The residents suggest that McMurphy be sent to the Disturbed ward. All of the residents believe that they are suggesting exactly what the Nurse is thinking. The residents believe that McMurphy is a psychopath, and that he should be removed from their ward because he is dangerous. The disturbed ward is usually where Nurse Ratched sends any of the patients that she doesn’t want to deal with. One resident starts to smoke his pipe because the nurse is quiet, he thinks its ok. It all stops when Nurse Ratched starts talking and tells the resident that he is completely wrong. She tells him that sending McMurphy to the Disturbed ward would be just taking the easy way out, by giving someone else their problem. She also says that by sending McMurphy away they would be doing exactly what the patients would expect.

I chose to talk about Nurse Ratched because I believe that Nurse Ratched has a special interest in McMurphy, because Chief says she would ship a person off to the Disturbed ward for it being " a chance that they would spit on someone." There has to be something about McMurphy that the nurse likes. It may be the fact that he is the only one on the ward that has directly defied her and that she can make an example of him.