![One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-03/One%20Flew%20Over%20the%20Cuckoo%27s%20Nest.jpg?itok=6BIRrYLL)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Ken KeseyNurse Ratched, the head of the psych ward, runs a pretty tight ship. Oppressing her all-male patients and enforcing strict rules, readers experience the mechanical, routine life in the ward through the eyes of Bromden, a half-Indian deaf patient. This life is disturbed by the new patient McMurphy, exuberant and philanthropic in his own way, who catalyzes a change in the men on the ward. Kesey chronicles the war between him and Nurse Ratched while tying in ideas of societal pressures, sexuality, and the 1900s concept of mental health.