When Randle McMurphy was admitted to an Oregon mental hospital, he was admitted for being considered mentally insane, but he was very different from all the other patients. McMurphy was social, comedic, and full of confidence, unlike the other patients around him who seemed to try to sink into the background. McMurphy showed few characteristics similar to the other patients of the ward, so does the combine create the insanity it is trying to fix. We see the happening of the combine through the eyes of Chief Bromden, who is mentally insane. We see that things transform and morph, become covered in fog from machines, and the “inner workings of the combine” all because of the way his brain works, yet when Chief stops taking his medicine the fog disappears, the machine get covered by the walls, and every things stays how it actually is. Chief has been taking the medicine for ten years, it has permanently damaged his brain and most likely has caused him to act how he does and the nurses and doctors seeing him like that lead them to believe that he is mentally unstable. He also found that …show more content…
Billy is always pressured to get better but by doing that the nurses and doctors are just making him worse, they see how he reacts to their statements and it makes him begin to implode. We don't get to see how Billy sees the world but we do get to see is the effect he has on people and the effect he has on them, Billy is the child of the story and McMurphy just wants to help him, but Billy takes all comments or action towards him in interesting ways and sometimes they can lead to Billy getting hurt. Near the end of the story Billy is confronted about having sex with one of McMurphy’s “friends” by Mrs. Ratched and Billy concludes that the best way to deal with the situation is to kill