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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental institution in the Pacific Northwest. The narrator of the novel is Chief Bromden, also known as Chief Broom, a catatonic half-Indian man whom all of the inmates and staff assume is deaf and dumb. Bromden often suffers from hallucinations during which he feels the room filling with a dense, overwhelming fog generated by a huge mechanized matrix called The Combine which controls everyone in its grasp. The institution is dominated by Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse), a cold, precise woman with calculated gestures and a calm, mechanical manner. When the story begins, a new patient, Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives at the ward. He is a self-professed “gambling fool” who has just come from a work…

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Posted By deanna a #322527 at May 13, 2013 4:39 PM

Was Randall actually mentally ill? And if so, what disorder do you think he was afflicted by?

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1. What is the “towel” incident? Describe what happened. How did McMurphy “get” Nurse Ratched? How did Nurse Ratched react?

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