One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Power

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how to play cards and he taught them to gamble. His very
first bet though was that he could get the best of nurse Ratched within the week,
and he did. She wasn't going to back down though. To try and stop all the
gambling going on she rationed the cigarettes, so they no longer had anything to
bet, but that never stopped them, they used money instead.
The patients admired McMurphy because no one had ever stood up to her
before, and he would do things for them such as arranging basketball games. He
was also the one who enabled the patients to use the tub room for card games,
and so they could get away from that horrifying music that the nurse always
played. The tub room is also significant in the power struggle because it was
the doctor who helped McMurphy obtain it. The Dr. was the one who came up with
all the solutions for the problems that the nurse would bring up to try and stop
the men from using it. McMurphy and the Doctor even went to the same high
school and the ...

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