Chief Bromden is having delusions of the combine that start with the fog. “When the fog clears to where I can see, I’m sitting in the day room,” suggests that the combine controls the fog. The hospital is a combine in the fact that it helps fix patients with mental illnesses, and inside the hospital there are separate compartments of the combine. In which the combine is ran by Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched is the “driver” of the combine because she believes that everyone should follow her orders. Chief Bromden also describes Nurse Ratched as a combine by herself. Nurse Ratched is basically a combine by herself because she controls the entire ward. She tells the patients what they can and can’t do. The patients have to conform and listen to her, …show more content…
When Bromden was home alone when he was younger, three government officials wanted to buy the land. “He bends toward me and squints and lifts his mustache up to his nose again like it’s me stinking instead of the fish.” This suggests that Bromden plays deaf and dumb as a result of how the government official acted like he was invisible. Bromden is just a spoke on the wheel. People find Bromden and his father a little bit different because of their culture. In the greater world, Bromden’s father is the engine of the combine. Bromden’s father runs the machine of the tribe. Without the Chief’s father, there would be no Chief. Thus, his father has the nickname …show more content…
“The ward is a factory for the combine. It’s for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is.” As a combine factory fixes combines, the hospital in this case fixes the patients so they are able to run again. The hospital is the part of the combine that helps the seeds grow and get healthy, in society’s point of view. Without the hospital, the ill patients would not be able to be fixed. As is the case for a broken combine, if it does not have a factory, it will not be