And now... Billy Bibbit

Who is Bibbit?

Following the line of characters already mentioned, now is the turn of the boyish patient Billy.

Billy is nervous, shy and has to deal with an extreme speech impediment. In the book, it is implied that he cuts himself, attemping several occasions to commit suicide. Billy becomes the Nurse Ratched's informant because he is afraid of her.

Another aspect is his fear of women, but that doesn't prevent spending one night with a prostitute in order to lose his virginity, thanks to McMurphy. Of course, the next mornig the Big Nurse finds him with the lady and start threatening to tell his mother. Then he goes and finally kills himself in his room because, I believe, he doesn't want to lose his mother's love.

His death affects McMurphy, which leds to the final events in the book.

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The Big Nurse

Or Nurse Ratched

She is our tyrannical head nurse of the mental institution. Also cold and heartless, she does not hesitate when it comes to restricte her patients' access to medication or even human basic necessities if it suits her whims. She has an informnant, Billy Bibbit, who is very terrified of her and does whatever she says. This show us the nature of the Big Nurse and the perception of the patients that have on her.

But her dictatorial rule is nearly toppled when McMurphy arrives, and the two of them can't stand each other. She tries everything to stop the behavior of McMurphy, using threats, mild punishment and at one point, shock therapy, but are not sucessful.

Nurse Ratched can be seen as a metaphor of the corrupting influence of power and authority in bureaucracies such as the mental institution in which the novel is set.

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The new patient

 R.P. McMurphy

Okey, at the end of my firs post, Randle McMurphy was introduced but why is he important? What is the deal with him?

Our  Irish-American patient is a Korean war veterant.  He is guilty of battery and gambling. He had also been charged with, but never convicted of, staturory rape. McMurphy is transferred from a prison work farm to the hospital, thinking it will be an easy way to serve out his sentence in comfort. The problem with is he is agaisnts everything the Big Nurse says or does. Just when he is introduced, they had a cold start and the Big Nurse tries to explain him that  "everyone" must follow the rules. McMurphy, beginning with with the rebellious attitude that will define him, replies:

"Ya know, ma'am. Ya know. That is the same exact thing somebody always tells me about the rules... just when they figure I'm about to do the dead oppsite."

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