Why is the dorm room locked on weekends? How does McMurphy use this to criticize the therapy?
Dorms are locked on weekends to prevent men from going back to bed after breakfast. Nurse Ratched explains that the therapeutic schema asserts that men should not be alone, where their illnesses can fester. McMurphy points out that the supposed goal of therapy is to reintroduce the patients to normal life, and that normal people can sleep in on weekends. In spite of this, the men cant sleep in. It is an example of some over-use of power in a so-called democratic form of therapy. 2. What complaint does Cheswick raise about another of Nurse Ratcheds use of power? How does she explain this, and how valid is this explanation? How is this affected by her reputation of abusing power? Cheswick complains that Nurse Ratched withholds the patients supply of cigarettes, which they own. Nurse Ratched explain that the goals of this practice are to protect the mens health and prevent McMurphy from winning to much in their gambling. This is a reasonable answer, but her reputation as a ruthless power-
