Monday, December 16, 2013
At the beginning of the book I saw McMurphy as the guy that didn't care about the others one bit, he was concerned about himself, his time in the asylum, and how fun his time there would be. But I believe he changed, even though he acts mostly the same all the time. I think that seeing the things he saw in the asylum, how people were considered insane and being constantly demoralized, made him feel sorry for others. That's probably all it took for him to change radically, to feel sorry for someone probably for the first time in his life. With his actions now focused on helping others with defiant acts, he proves to them that nothing is established, they're not insane just by default as the Big Nurse made them believe.
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I completely agree. The men on the ward are no longer "rabbits". They can fend for themselves and that is all that McMurphy set out to do. But I still have one question: Why doesn't McMurphy leave when he has the chance to? He could have completed his mission and gotten out alive. He wouldn't be a martyr but he would be the next best thing: A living legend. That's the thing I'm most confused about.
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