Notes Day 1

The perspective is blunt at the beginning which shows how the reader is going to learn things that the other patients shouldn't know but because Bromden is "deaf and dumb" so he will see and hear things that he probably wouldn't be exposed to if he wasn't deaf and dumb. We are also learn that Chief Bromden will call things as he sees them whether or not they are accurate. McMurphy is important because he is slightly crazy but not insane which will change the course of the story because he will be disruptive to the system. When McMurphy laughs it is out of the ordinary because they live in such an oppressive culture, due in part to the white walls and Nurse Ratched that no one ever laughs so it is again another example of McMurphy disrupting the system The Big Nurse put in place. The separation of people in the ward shows that the asylum isn't trying to help the patients get along with other people or trying to help him (i.e. wouldn't tell Mr. Taber which pills he was taking) there is something wrong with this asylum and is our first hints that this isn't a helpful place.