She finds Billy in bed with Candy. A Cheap! Nurse Ratched asks Billy what his mother will think about this incident. She claims that Mrs. Bibbit may even become sick from the news. Billy begins stuttering again and shakes, pleading with Nurse Ratched not to tell his mother. Nurse Ratched attempts to reassure him that nobody will harm him, but she will explain it all to his mother. When the doctor arrives, he finds that Billy has cut his throat. Nurse Ratched blames McMurphy, telling him that he is playing with human lives, as if he thought himself to be a god.
McMurphy attacks Nurse Ratched, ripping her uniform all the way down the front to expose her breasts as he tries to strangle her. The black boys pull him off Nurse Ratched before he can kill her. Afterwards, several patients sign out of the hospital, and Dr.
Spivey resigns. Nurse Ratched stays in Medical for a week while a Japanese nurse runs the ward. She cannot speak, so she writes on a notepad that he will be back. Harding signs out, and George transfers to a different ward. Martini , Scanlon , and Chief Bromden are the only members of the group who remain. After three weeks, McMurphy returns; the black boys wheel him in on a gurney. He has had a lobotomy and is now a Vegetable. Martini and Scanlon cannot recognize McMurphy. That night, Chief Bromden smothers McMurphy with a pillow, putting him out of his misery.
Scanlon tells chief Bromden he has to leave. Chief Bromden then lifts the control panel in the tub room and throws it through the window. Chief Bromden runs away and catches a ride with a Mexican man going north. He has been gone a long time. In Chapter Twenty-Six, having initiated the transformation of the men on the ward in the previous chapter, McMurphy now asserts himself as the controlling force on the ward.
However, Nurse Ratched undermines this force by dividing the men from one another; she exposes McMurphy for his self-interested actions and manipulation. The irony of this situation is that she herself manipulates the patients, while McMurphy has remained fairly honest about his intentions and his entrepreneurial spirit.
If the men experienced a transformation from being meek and easily dominated to being more confident and respectable, McMurphy experiences an equally momentous shift in this chapter. McMurphy assumes the role of selfless martyr in this chapter, defending George Sorenson against the invasive cleaning procedures of the black boys.
In the past, his decisions generally benefited him monetarily or built his reputation. But this is a time when McMurphy is motivated least by self-interest, for he can gain very little or nothing from defending Sorenson.
This point returns to the contrast between the sexuality of McMurphy and the repression of Nurse Ratched. The suggestion is that if Nurse Ratched were sexually satisfied, or at least satisfied with her personal life, she would allow greater freedom on her ward. Nurse Ratched does gain a victory over McMurphy in this chapter, but whatever victory she has will be short-lived.
The shock treatment does not significantly affect Chief Bromden; he quickly regains a sense of lucidity afterward and returns to coherence. Although Nurse Ratched maintains a tight grip on her particular ward, she is vulnerable within the institutional structure she uses against her patients. McMurphy gains power and authority through receiving the electroshock treatment, just as crucifixion and resurrection demonstrate the divinity of Jesus in Christian teachings.
The religious parallels and increasing indications of martyrdom cause Nurse Ratched to return McMurphy to the ward, even if she only dimly perceives the depth of what he represents to the other men.
His reputation can only grow while he is away; by returning him to the ward she can remind the men that he is not the godlike martyr the inmates have imagined. Kesey gives further psychological analyses of the more significant inmates.
Ratched flashes back to her horrific childhood while watching a puppet show with Gwendolyn, and causes a scene, later confessing to Gwendolyn that Edmund is her brother. Edmund and Dolly are captured but Dolly tries to shoot it out with the police, but dies in the gunfight.
Edmund is returned to the hospital in chains. The Netflix series is sort of like a prequel to the incidents of the novel. Furious, McMurphy attacks Ratched and strangles her.
He also tears off her clothes for all the other inmates to see. Chief accompanies the Acutes to the library, where Harding is visited by his wife. Harding introduces her to McMurphy. She tells McMurphy to call her by her first name, Vera, rather than Mrs. She manipulates the meeting by disregarding the doctor and the patients as if they were insignificant. McMurphy makes a bet with the guys that he can break Nurse Ratched without destroying himself. After his morning shower, McMurphy shows up in only a towel.
He claims his clothes were stolen. So McMurphy has scored a point against Nurse Ratched. He brings the vote up again at the next meeting. All the Acutes raise their hands — twenty of them. McMurphy goes around to the Chronics, begging one of them to raise their hand. The next afternoon, McMurphy goes and turns the television to the baseball game. McMurphy watches the blank television in protest, as if the game were really on. The Acutes join him and they watch the blank TV screen.
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