ks that the guy finally just snapped, and is throwing a fit so they'll give him a fatal shock treatment. While this guy is going out of his mind and attacking the guards, Bromden thinks, "What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait," (115). Bromden sees that the ward and the nurse herself will kill him in time. So, he looks upon this behavior with disapproval.. Through Bromden's hazy attitude, Kesey makes the reader feel the dark cloud of frustration and despair that hangs over the ward.
             Fortunately, this doesn't last too long, for a whole new tone is taken on when McMurphy pledges that he will stop at nothing to crush the nurse's tyranny. First, it is a tone that often accompanies a heated battle, and it is displayed at it's height when McMurphy and Miss Ratched face off at the meetings. Almost like a prizefight, the nurse and McMurphy square off while the other patients look on starry-eyed. Of course, the entire audience is rooting for McMurphy. This strained sparring comes to a head when McMurphy holds vote to change the daily schedule in order to watch the World Series. The meeting starts out in the deepest "fog" to date, but it begins to dissipate for good. Bromden describes McMurphy's triumph;
             "And then off down the slope I see them, other hands coming up out of
             the fog. It's like...that big red hand of McMurphy's is reaching into the
             fog and dropping down and dragging the men up by their hands, dragging
             them blinking into the open," (124).
             When Bromden himself raises his hand, and breaks the barrier that his false deafness has put on, the tone is completely changed. He may still play deaf for awhile, but the fact that he thinks about playing deaf and acknowledges that he must keep up the facade, shows that he and the tone have changed.
             After this, Kesey puts an almost nostalgic ton...