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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