How does Harding's wife Act when she comes to visit him?

One of the orderlies arrives with Harding's wife, Vera. She blows the orderly a kiss, then starts to move (a.k.a. sway her hips) toward Harding. Harding doesn't move toward her but he looks around and realizes everybody's watching. He calls over to McMurphy to come meet his "nemesis."
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When Harding's wife Vera Harding visits she is?

Vera Harding, Dale Harding's wife, differs from Nurse Ratched in that she uses her physical appearance and sexuality to intimidate Harding. When coming to visit, she flirts and blows a kiss to the black boy. This behavior leaves Harding feeling sexually insecure and vulnerable.
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How does Harding treat his wife?

In this section, Chief observes that Harding's wife is an emasculating, "ball-cutting," flirt. Her actions imply that she is unfaithful because Harding is a weak lover and she has no use for his education. Kesey depicts Harding as an effeminate man whose education contributed to his emasculated state.
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How does McMurphy Act when Harding asks him about his wife?

Harding mocks her poor grammar, and she says she wishes his limp-wristed friends would stop coming to their house to ask about him. After she leaves, McMurphy angrily erupts when Harding asks for his opinion of her, saying, “I've got worries of my own without getting hooked with yours.
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Who comes to Harding?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Chapters 20 - 22

While they'rein the library, Harding's wife comes to visit him. Harding calls McMurphy over to sit with them. Harding is his typical self-deprecating self, even to the point of insulting his wife, who begins to flirt with McMurphy.
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What does Harding's wife do to McMurphy when she comes to visit her husband?

One of the orderlies arrives with Harding's wife, Vera. She blows the orderly a kiss, then starts to move (a.k.a. sway her hips) toward Harding. Harding doesn't move toward her but he looks around and realizes everybody's watching. He calls over to McMurphy to come meet his "nemesis."
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What is Harding's illness in Cuckoo's Nest?

Harding is a homosexual, but the social pressure to be straight cripples him. He is married, but he prefers to commit himself to the hospital rather than face prejudice or the anger of his wife. After McMurphy is lobotomized, Harding checks himself out of the ward.
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Why is George refusing to take a shower?

While they're in the shower, the black aides attack George, trying to get him to put on salve. George refuses, because of his neatness obsession and pathological fear of germs. McMurphy steps in to defend him, and he gets in a fight with the aides.
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What mental illness does Martini have?

Martini. Another hospital patient. Martini lives in a world of delusional hallucinations, but McMurphy includes him in the board and card games with the other patients.
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Why are McMurphy's hands trembling?

Answers 1. Martini is imagining things, looking foe enemies that are not there. His outlandish behaviour startles even McMurphy as Martini demands to know if they see the enemy.
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How does Nurse Ratched emasculate men?

Nurse Ratched emasculates McMurphy by keeping him on the ward and intending to punish him for his actions on the ward.
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What does Harding think is the root of all their problems at the hospital why does McMurphy disagree with him?

Harding thinks that Ratched is the root of the problems, McMurphy thinks that Ratched is a small part of a bigger problem.
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What was McMurphy's mental illness?

Each film takes up specific gendered mental illnesses – Susanna is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, seven times more likely in women than men, and McMurphy with Anti-Social Personality Disorder, three times more likely in men than women.
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What does Charlie Cheswick have?

As McMurphy starts to engage in the group therapy sessions, he realizes that he really is in a crazy house with all the inmates having some sort of disorder: Billy Bibbit, who suffers from nervousness and stuttering; Charlie Cheswick, who has childish fits of temper; Martini, who is delusional; Dale Harding, who is ...
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What is delusion and hallucination?

Hallucinations and delusions are often grouped together when talking about various illnesses or conditions, but they're not the same. While both of them are part of a false reality, a hallucination is a sensory perception and a delusion is a false belief.
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Do Royals bathe themselves?

It's believed that the royals prefer to avoid taking showers, due to their belief that they're for members of the working class. In other royal news, Kate Middleton wore a pair of £2 earrings and debuted brand new hair on her first day back at work since turning 40.
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Who won Nurse Ratched and McMurphy?

Even though McMurphy never makes it out of the hospital alive, his resistance to Nurse Ratched has shown that she is ultimately powerless over the men, and he is the winner by decision.
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How Old Is Billy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Billy Bibbit, one of the patients at the psychiatric institution in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest suffers at the hands of two domineering women. His mother refuses to treat him as an adult, although Billy is 31 years-old.
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Is Chief mentally ill Why or why not?

First Person (Chief Bromden)

Chief Bromden is a Columbia Indian who suffers from schizophrenia. Although he plays a central role in the story, he is largely an observer. Chief is an interesting narrator because he is certainly not unbiased, and his mental illness can also shed doubt on his reliability.
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Was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest a true story?

The novelist Ken Kesey based the character of Nurse Ratched, the villain of his 1962 novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” on a real person—a nurse whom he once met while working the night shift in a psychiatric facility in Oregon.
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What mental illness does Chief Bromden have?

Chief Bromden presented a long-standing history characterized by the complex features of Schizophrenia.
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What happens in chapter 3 of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Chapter 3 - 4

McMurphy wins. He then introduces himself to the Chronics, shaking hands with all of them who are willing, until he finally comes around to Bromden. He stares at the Chief for a moment, and Harding and Bibbit explain Bromden's state.
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How does Chief react when McMurphy gave him the pack of gum?

When the orderly leaves, McMurphy whispers to Chief to tell him something and he starts singing him a hillbilly song about the Spearmint gum. At first, Chief gets mad, thinking McMurphy is making fun of him. Then he realizes that it is funny and he wants to laugh at himself. Finally, he starts to chuckle.
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What does McMurphy do as retaliation against Big Nurse Why is she so shocked?

When Billy dies, the Nurse blames McMurphy for his death. In retaliation for her lies and Billy's death, he tears open her uniform, exposing her breasts to all the patients. Her sexuality, which is her one weak point, has been exposed; as a result, she is rendered defenseless in front of all the patients.
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What does McMurphy look like?

Randle Patrick McMurphy is a red-haired, wild American of Irish descent. He unself-consciously engages in brawling, gambling, chicanery, and exercising his carnal nature. His primitive inclinations mark him as an iconoclast in a world that increasingly values conformity.
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