Betting on something isn’t always the greatest idea. Winning is great and all, but there’s also a pretty good chance that you will lose. McMurphy makes a bet that almost becomes a turning point in the story. Let’s explore the tension that this bet causes in the ward.
Reader #1-From the moment McMurphy got to the ward; Nurse Ratched did not like him. She knew there was something bad about him, and that he would turn the ward upside down. The bet made their relationship is going to worsen because he was determined to make her snap. As the novel progresses the Nurse Ratched tries to figure out what is wrong with McMurphy and how to get him out of the ward. “He isn’t extraordinary. He is simply a man and no more, and is subject to all the fears and all the cowardice and all the timidity that any other man is subject to”(Kesey 157). Nurse Ratched proves that she is not going to let McMurphy change and go to a different ward. She will not let him get to her, and is determined to get him to obey her. Later in the novel this is going to change the way people will think of the Nurse and the ward. The relationship between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched is going to test the wards strength. Reader #2- McMurphy discusses the ward with the other patients. He asks them why they act the way they do. when he realizes the only person in his way is nurse ratched he makes a bet with the other patients to be able to get under her skin. this is a turning point in the novel because nobody has ever dared to go against the nurse before. They all believe she is unbeatable and no-one can overthrow her schedule. "that is exactly what the new patient is planning: to take over. He is what we call a 'manipulator,' Miss Flinn, a man who will use everyone and everything to his own ends." This quote said by the nurse is ironic, because how she describes McMurphy is exactly how she actually how she acts toward the patient's.this might cause a war later on in the book between these two kingpins and im sure it will be a even match up.
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Allie
11/24/2015 12:55:21 pm
I dont think its a good idea that nurse ratched and McMurphy don't like each other. McMurphy made a bet to make her snap because i feel he knows what shes capable of.
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Charli burgess
11/24/2015 02:30:02 pm
I agree with reader #2 because no one would ever try to make a bet like that with nurse Ratched besides McMurphy. I also disagree though because I think people could have seen somethin like this coming. It's McMurphy, all he wants is to beat nurse Ratched and there's nothing he wants more.
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Paige
11/29/2015 11:36:46 am
I agree with reader #2 when they talk about the bet that was made. It definitely was a turning point in the novel because no one in the ward has ever tested Nurse Ratched like this before.
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Ryan W.
11/29/2015 07:59:15 pm
Reader #1 is right the big nurse sees McMurphy as a challenge, not a problem. This bet made McMurphy really test the system, but so far he is on top.
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Megan Fata
11/30/2015 09:51:03 am
I agree with reader #2 that the tension between nurse ratched and mcmurphy will rise. There could possibly be a war or conflict later on in the book like the reader said.
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Danielle morrissey
11/30/2015 10:37:36 am
I think it is a bad idea for mcmurphy to try and break nurse ratched because she is most likely stronger than him. Also she has more power so she can do whatever she wants to basically torture him.
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Matthew Meyers
11/30/2015 10:57:57 am
When reader #2 talks about the bet mcmurphy made i agreed that it was a turning point. This is not a good idea on his part because it's just going to cause more problems between him and nurse Ratched.
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jiselle
12/2/2015 10:29:31 am
Reader #1 post says that their bet will see how string the ward truly is but i Think it's honestly just between McMurphy and Big Nurse. Yes the patients have to deal with them both, but if they're just battling each other the most, the patients will kind of get away from the Nurse because most of her attention will always be on McMurphy and making sure he's miserable.
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