sically keeps to himself, saying only what he feels need be said. "Miss Ratched is a veritable angel of mercy and why, everybody knows it. She's unselfish as the wind, toiling thanklessly for the good of all, day after day, seven days a week... Oh no my egomaniac buddy, she is dedicated, she gives every bit of herself, she desires nothing more to see us walk out of her adjusted and capable once more of coping with life," says Harding. What Harding does not yet know is McMurphy will prepare him for society much more than Ratched could ever possibly do. McMurphy is a figure of all that society is; blunt, sporadic, and unpredictable, unlike the predictable lifestyle the patients have in the hospital. Soon McMurphy encourages Harding to break the rules by exposing him to the gambling, which he has known so well from the o
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