McMurphy vs. The Nurse

     I think that McMurphy is more powerful than the big nurse. McMurphy is very sneaky and has a legitimate reason to back everything he does up.  At a point during the story McMurphy comes out of the shower with just a towel which is not aloud. On page 88 he tells her that his clothes were stolen during the night. They start arguing about how his clothes were supposed to be picked up and that he should have been issued a green uniform. He makes her staff look like they are incompetent in front of the patients, which she did not want to happen. He also asks her to turn the radio down, which she says she is not able to do. She thinks that she has put an end to anything about the radio. Then, on page 99 the doctor says at the meeting how he and McMurphy talked about a way to figure out the radio situation to fit every one's needs. McMurphy is able to go behind the Big nurses back to make her look back, making him more powerful.
    I think that McMurphy is also more theraputic for the patients. The Big Nurse controls every single move that they make, and nothing changes. She makes it so there is really no way that they will recieve any help. McMurphy comes in and tries to change things, and make the patients feel like they are people. He tries to make it more like the outside world and not have them controled.