One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Close Reading

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conflict. Kesey uses this as another demonstration that manly activities like fighting and fishing are shown to mess up the Combine’s workings. Shooting is also taken to be a reference to guns, which are a symbol for warfare and destruction, but also tools for liberation and freedom, depending on the circumstances. The second amendment of the U.S. Constitution is the right to bear arms, which was established to insure the freedom of the country’s citizens. “Every which way” is yet another instance of Kesey using diction to imply chaos and disorder, the opposite of what a machine is.
Kesey uses the image of the doctor’s “glasses-on-a-string dangling from one line ten feet off the back of the boat” to illustrate a very important image, because the doctor’s glasses are consistently a metaphor for the fog that The Combine forces its slaves to look through, and this method of control is directly connected to the Combine by a robotic line of communication. The glasses are also behind ...

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