... Nurse Ratched. Strategically placing this scene at the end of Part One, Kesey uses the effects of the patients" new image as a transgression into the second step of the societal breakdown where one starts to see an imbalance caused by the variation within the culture resulting in the first signs of conflict. Continuing with allusions to the Holy Land and the life of Jesus, Kesey incorporates symbolism as well to help show that a foreigner ... is why the absence of fog when McMurphy shows up is crucial to the story. "When the fog clears to where I can see, I"m sitting in the day room. Bef...

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