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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey

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Sep 06, 2017 Travis rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Is Nurse Ratched (Nurse Wretched?) a villain? Until the final climactic scene in which her scolding of Billy Bibb and threatening to tell his mother about finding him with Candy, the prostitute, leads Billy to commit suicide, Nurse Ratched has seemed more like a long-suffering, patient, even gentle nurse. She puts up with McMurphy's disruptions, escapades, and assaults on her authority without taking any harsh, retal ...more

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