I think that McMurphy is in fact going a little insane.. when he came to the ward he himself was already a little tainted from doing shady things and coming from jail, getting thrown into the loony bin just helped the cause i think.
"Mr. McMurphy... my friend... i'm not a chicken, i'm a rabbit." (Harding, p.60)
Things said like this make people go crazy. Imagine waking up everyday to people that couldn't go about their day normally, it's like working backwards. I think that because McMurphy realizes that and so he lets himself get a little crazy sometimes because he knows he's not the crazy one but acting like it gets what he wants and he finds it amusing.. maybe a way to get through this.
Its like that one time their in the rec room and their playing cards and the music in the background is blasting over the speakers everyone acts like its normal but McMurphy is the only one complaining that it is too loud and annoying.
How did you feel when you were done researching for book did the way you think about things changed at all?
